New research has uncovered a crucial clue to understanding the spread of "barrens" in the Great Southern Reef, which are ...

Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that ...

A new study has found fish using tools to open shellfish. Tool use is when creatures use an item to achieve to a goal, like ...

New research led by Macquarie University has documented tool use in five species of wrasse fish across the western Atlantic, ...

Reef fish, too, respond to warmer waters—sometimes ... that nibbles back strands of sargassum. And a school of parrotfish—fused teeth like wire cutters—chip away noisily at the rocks ...

If any fish is emblematic of this life cycle—kindergarten in the mangroves, graduate school on the reef—it is the rainbow parrotfish. The scientific name for this species is perfect ...

A combination of climate change and humanity’s inability to clean up after itself has devastated a huge amount of reef coverage, which also happens to be the habitat of many fish and other ...

Roi, which were introduced to Hawaiian waters, may be a misunderstood fish. Researchers say their impacts on reefs and wildlife may not be all bad. — KEOKI STENDER photo Over the years ...

A perfect storm of environmental factors has seen a monumental loss of fish ... Curtin's School of Molecular and Life Sciences, said a lack of oxygen is a well-known risk for tropical coral reefs.

The Coral Triangle has more coral reef fish diversity than anywhere else in the world: 37% (2,228) of the world’s coral reef fish species (6,000), and 56% of the coral reef fishes in the Indo-Pacific ...

Board members had noted a troubling lack of information about the ecological effects of removing fish in mass quantities from an already fragile reef ecosystem, and a failure to seriously consider the ...