Reef fish in different oceans often develop similar color patterns because evolution explores the same set of biological ...

Leaving the comfort and safety of home to explore the world is a difficult decision. However, in a tiny coral reef fish called a neon goby, dads help their offspring take the plunge by pushing them ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral reefs harbor such a wide range of stripes, spots and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mike Gil, an ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, deployed video cameras to “spy” on coral reef fish over months and found that they ...

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.

Professor Nagelkerken's latest research, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, looks at the intrinsic and learned survival behavior of two types of tropical ...

Allowing coral reef fish to rebound is emerging as one of the clearest ways to put more healthy protein on the plates of coastal families without stripping the ocean bare. New science suggests that if ...

In the paper, Extreme environmental conditions reduce coral reef fish biodiversity and productivity, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers use a variety of techniques to ...

In the first global assessment of its kind, a science team led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has produced a landmark report on the impact of fishing on a group ...

A new study finds that large, herbivorous fish species, such as parrotfish, surgeonfish and rabbitfish, benefit from coral reef demise due to an increase of a food source, algal turf. Certain fish ...

Almost half of all marine angelfishes surveyed so far hybridize frequently, both with close relatives and with distant relations, highlighting the question: what is a species? A juvenile marine ...