Nighttime drops in ocean oxygen raise energy use in small reef fish. Repeated stress could affect reef health as oceans warm.

Roslyn and David Zinner are bobbing around in the pool at the Columbia Swim Center one May morning, testing the plastic fish, a floating fabric turtle and faux coral that will become this year’s Coral ...

GALVESTON (AP) - Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

SOUTH DAYTONA — Dorothy Featherston’s fourth-grade students were excited, focused and ready for art class Tuesday morning at South Daytona Elementary. This was the day they would finally assemble a ...

Scientists analyzed the DNA of fish in the Galapagos Islands and discovered a colorful new species with white speckles, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Swimming through the crystal blue ...

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 ...

New research has found that the protection of coral reefs has boosted the amount of fish they harbor by around 10%. The study used survey data from about 2,600 reefs with varying levels of protection ...

A new analysis published in the journal Nature highlights the dimensions of modern coral reef degradation, according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Boston College's ...