The colorfully patterned reef fish are the first to feel the ... in increased competition for other types of coral. When a butterflyfish wants to signal to a competitor that a particular bit ...

Saddled butterflyfish (Chaetodon ephippium ... (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala), closely resembles the reef's rocky, algae- and coral-encrusted bottom, where it lies in wait for crustaceans and small ...

Tiny planktonic creatures drift by, offering breakfast to early risers like butterflyfish ... scraping food from the coral surface before night falls. The reef’s inhabitants sense the transition ...

On Grace Bay in Providenciales, you'll find a footpath just offshore near the Coral Gardens Resort. Follow that path to floating buoys that will guide you on your Bight Reef snorkel. A series of ...

search for reef fish, butterflyfish, pufferfish, anemones and their resident clownfish, parrotfish and the signature smile of a moray eel. Many Bora Bora visitors say the Coral Gardens were the ...

the International Coral Reef Initiative announced Wednesday. It's the fourth global bleaching event since 1998 and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs ...

“Bleaching becomes more severe if either the heat stress episodes are more intense or if they last for a longer time,” Joerg Wiedenmann, a marine biologist who heads the Coral Reef Laboratory ...

We know that noisy reefs are healthy, but carefully listening to the sounds made by fish, invertebrates and humans underwater can help us understand the details better, such as changing diversity, ...