Red drum do not spawn south of KSC.

We call this aggregate call the "freeway sound"

Red drum do not spawn south of KSC. We call this aggregate call the "freeway sound"

R. Grant Gilmore, Jr., Ph.D., a senior scientist with Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Science, Inc., in Vero Beach has been studying lagoon creatures for decades.

The following is a playlist of fish calls he's recorded in the Indian River Lagoon. All these fish, the Spotted Sea Trout, and Black and Red Drum,  are warm temperate "so expect them to disappear with global warming."

R. Grant Gilmore, Jr., Ph.D., a senior scientist with Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Science, Inc., in Vero Beach has been studying lagoon creatures for decades.
The following is a playlist of fish calls he's recorded in the Indian River Lagoon. All these fish, the Spotted Sea Trout, and Black and Red Drum,  are warm temperate "so expect them to disappear with global warming."

Fish calls in the Indian River Lagoon

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Red Drum

Here the 911 recordings from the December 2025 incident where a small plane made an emergency landing on top of a car driving southbound on Interstate 95 near Cocoa, Florida.

Here the 911 recordings from the December 2025 incident where a small plane made an emergency landing on top of a car driving southbound on Interstate 95 near Cocoa, Florida.

9-1-1 call: Small plane lands on top of car on I-95 in Florida

In the hours after the shooting, Ikner's quote from three months ago traveled the globe in media reports. Here’s the full interview.

In the hours after the shooting, Ikner's quote from three months ago traveled the globe in media reports. Here&rsquo;s the full interview.

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Florida Tech grad students are building a manatee robot that will act and look like a manatee, so biologists can get up close and study them without spooking them. One of the main goals is to learn manatee language: what their various squeaks, clicks and clucks - as can be heard here - mean. Audio provided by the Save the Manatee Club

Florida Tech grad students are building a manatee robot that will act and look like a manatee, so biologists can get up close and study them without spooking them. One of the main goals is to learn manatee language: what their various squeaks, clicks and clucks - as can be heard here - mean. Audio provided by the Save the Manatee Club

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