Reef fish evolved the ability to feed by biting prey from surfaces relatively recently, a UC Davis study shows. The innovation has driven an explosion of evolution in reef fish. Image shows a rainbow ...

Globally, coral reefs are under siege by multiple stressors, one of which is herbaceous algae. An overabundance of algae on ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – It’s a whole new world under the sea and behind the scenes of The Reef Aquarium in the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. Above where the fish swim, there’s tank access and giant ...

🛍️ The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) 🛍️ By Laura Baisas Published Mar 8, 2024 11:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Researchers traced reef fish ancestry by developing a comprehensive family tree of the major group of modern ocean fish. The world's reefs are hotbeds of biological diversity, including over 4,500 ...

The Nassau grouper is drawn by the winter moon, between December and March, to special places where hundreds of the cryptic fish engage in a reproductive dance that sometimes lasts days. Northeast ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

For hungry fish, corals make a difficult meal: venomous, coated with mucus and embedded in a razor-sharp, calcified skeleton. But one species, the tubelip wrass (Labropsis australis), has developed an ...

A new study examines the health of reef fish populations in the lesser Sunda-Banda seascape, a part of the Coral Triangle, which overlaps with Indonesian waters in the western Pacific. In remote areas ...

New research reveals that one of the largest-ever marine conservation initiatives has helped to prevent more frequent ...