You might think that a party thrown by a bunch of middle-age women science buffs would be a little dry. Especially if you walked into that party to find that the cocktail-hour entertainment consisted ...
A small, blue-gray fish that once gathered in loose schools along the rocky shores of the Galápagos Islands has become the ...
Courtship calls among two species of fish commonly found on Australian coral reefs have been described, and researchers say their "accents" can vary significantly between regions. Scientists led by ...
Could anything be better than chilling by the sky-blue waters of Belize, with servants doing your grunt work? Not for the longfin damselfish, who has turned the planktonic mysid shrimp into a virtual ...
This vibrantly orange-and-black fish with rounded fins is called a clownfish and is a member of the family Pomacentridae. To some children’s dismay, the not-so-funny clownfish do not inhabit Hawaiian ...
Research led by James Cook University has shown the devastating impacts of severe cyclones on corals and coral reef fishes, ...
A species of damselfish, Stegastes nigricans, selectively weed the algal gardens on which they feed in order to encourage the growth of their preferred algal species of Polysiphonia and suppress the ...
I’ve written about why some reef dwelling fishes, particularly clownfish or anemonefish, are striped and how the direction of their stripes — vertical or horizontal — predicts their aggressiveness ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Being separated from "friends" can be a stressful experience for some coral reef fish, a new study has found. It can even cause them to lose weight. Scientists at James Cook University in north ...