For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting ...

Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida ...

Mississippi will have plenty of annual cicadas singing this year and there may be some periodicals in the mix.

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The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low and high pitch sounds together, like ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

The ability to make two distinct sounds at once is shared with human beat boxers and throat singers. The horse whinny, or neigh, has been a familiar sound at least since the animal was domesticated, ...

Spain's Oscar entry for international feature, "Sirāt," not only earned a nod in that category, it also made history when the ...

Horses use their larynx to make two sounds simultaneously, so they are effectively singing and whistling at the same time ...

A new study found that horses are whistling and vibrating their vocal cords at the same time to create the distinct neigh that accompanies the animal.