A reef swim changes dramatically when marine life appears nearby. Hawksbill turtles often glide along coral ledges to feed ...

Climate stress is reshaping coral reefs as habitat loss causes reef fish communities and social groups to collapse.

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 ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...

A new study using high-speed video shows for the first time that the reef fish Zanclus cornutus (Moorish idol) and the related surgeonfish can move their jawbones sideways as well as up and down. This ...

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Healthy reef habitats are usually alive with the diverse sounds of marine life. Georgette Douwma via Getty Images Scientists eavesdropping on a previously destroyed coral reef in Indonesia say the ...

Off the coast of Eilat, Israel, a Pacific day octopus did something no scientist had seen before. Mid-hunt, with a small ...

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.

An international team of researchers studied the behavioral changes among butterflyfish on a series of reefs in the Indo-Pacific before and after the 2016 global mass coral bleaching event. They found ...

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 ...