Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new research using novel underwater infrared cameras. Artificial light can ...
The new species come from a group of small fish that live on the lower depths of coral reefs, researchers said. Shepherd B, Pinheiro HT, Najeeb A, Rocha CR, Rocha LA (2025) ZooKeys The fish’s ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a rare example of 'great fish parenting' with a common coral reef species found to actively protect their young by eating ... Coral Adaptation ...
A recent study off Sri Lanka’s west coast, which included surveys of coral reefs and shipwrecks like the Thermopylae Sierra, found that shipwrecks support more abundant fish assemblages compared with ...
Like many coral reef fish, clownfish males do guard the eggs against predators – but once they hatch, the larvae journey out into the open waters between reefs to feed on plankton until they are ...
An artificial reef is a way of boosting the ocean's capacity to create fish, to increase the life of the Gulf." Some biologists worry that artificial reefs simply attract fish from natural reefs ...
Shipwrecks host more diverse fish assemblages compared with natural coral reefs off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital. Research shows that shipwrecks provide more complex ...