By Rhett Ayers Butler For more than three decades, Mark Erdmann has worked where many only dream of diving—on the reefs and ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

Young Artist Sebastian Romo Nabs Coveted "Artist Spotlight" Award The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), in partnership with The Florida Nomad, is thrilled to announce that young ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

Banner image: A coral reef around Nukuoro Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, where microbial-based monitoring is undertaken to assess reef health. Image courtesy of Alyson Santoro/WHOI.

Rainbow reefs revealed: The secret 112-million-year saga of glowing fish Two new studies on marine fish biofluorescence find a close link to coral reefs and a wide range of dazzling colors Date ...

The team also found that fish species that live in or around coral reefs evolve biofluorescence at about 10 times the rate of non-reef species, with an increase in the number of fluorescent ...