A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer keeps a manatee calf hydrated after the orphaned mammal was ...

Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you'll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...

Scientists from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, together with colleagues from Central ...

New science shows that overfishing is eroding the sustainability of tropical coral reef fisheries in East Africa, with small-scale fishers losing out ... managing the capture of the whole community of ...

On many protected reefs, fish populations are two to three times denser than in fished areas, creating a steady supply of new fish. The research combined decades of fish surveys, genetic testing, ...

Our native brookies are not as robust, but a fish of seven inches is a good one — and legal. Over the years of roaming small native trout streams in their pursuit, I’ve managed to catch a ...

Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that smash shellfish against rocks to open and eat the meat, in a fascinating new ...

These fish don’t need a coral reef to look amazing—they’ll happily ... tail section that gives them their name. These fish are small—rarely exceeding 1.5 inches—but they’re at their ...

The reefs are largely awash, with only two small sand cays being emergent at high tide ... These include uncommon and undescribed fish, several endemic molluscs and several species at or near their ...

More broadly, Benkwitt suspects that seabird conservation could be an important boon for reefs throughout the tropics, particularly in places like the Chagos Archipelago where human communities are ...

In the published article, an author name was incorrectly written as Alwin Hykema. The correct spelling is Alwin Hylkema. The authors apologize for this error and ...