Huaguang Reef, one of the expansive atolls in the Xisha Islands, is completely mature, stretching 31 kilometers from east to west and 12 kilometers from north to south. Positioned as a concealed reef ...

Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it's because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces. Evolution doesn't ...

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.

Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton from the water column. For decades, scientists ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of fish so “perpetually displeased” that they have named it the “grumpy dwarfgoby.” A team at the University of Washington and King Abdullah University of ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves through the food chains of these critical ecosystems, reports an international ...