Scuba divers have supplied scientists with 13 film clips and three detailed descriptions of coral reef fish using rocks as ...

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.

"While some coral reef fish in the Arabian Gulf show slight adaptability to increasing temperatures, many do not," added Burt, who is also the co-principal investigator at the Mubadala ACCESS Center.

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

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. It took just over two minutes for the missile-tracking ship General Hoyt S. Vandenberg to sink to the bottom of the ...

US Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawai‘i) reintroduced legislation on Monday aimed at protecting the world’s coral reef ecosystems by ...

In the tropical waters off the coast of Indonesia, a free-swimming coral larva attaches itself to an underwater rock and starts to grow. The larva grows into a coral polyp, then a colony that ...

Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of acoustic data automatically ...