A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

Coral Reef Fish Are More Resilient Than We Thought, Study Finds : The Two-Way Ocean acidification can cause reckless behavior in coral reef fish. But researchers say that coral reef environments ...

Right after most coral reef fish hatch, they join a swirling sea of plankton as tiny, transparent larvae. Then currents, winds and waves disperse them, frequently to different reefs.

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 ...

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here's how that might help them deal with warmer water temps.

As oceans warm, coral reef fish might prefer to move rather than adapt Date: October 5, 2016 Source: University of Texas at Austin Summary: Scientists have new evidence that coral-reef fish -- who ...

Land-dwelling rats are upending life for coral reef fish. When rats invade tropical islands, they can trigger a chain reaction that reverberates all the way to coral reefs, researchers say.

These reefs are home to many mutually beneficial relationships, but the animals that live there still have to eat. Scientists are learning more about the hunting tactics of some coral reef fish.

The fish equivalent of putting on a Barry White record. ... Consider this coral reef off the U.S. Virgin Islands recorded in 2013, when it was thriving. Snapping shrimp pop bubbles.

Right after most coral reef fish hatch, they join a swirling sea of plankton as tiny, transparent larvae. Then currents, winds and waves disperse them, frequently to different reefs.

Members of the research team had established earlier that reef fish larvae could discriminate between the odors of different nearby reefs while preferring the odor of the reef where they were ...