An international research team led by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) with the participation of the ...

which the butterfly fish feeds on, is itself highly vulnerable – to attacks by plagues of crown-of-thorns starfish (thought to be triggered by humans releasing excess nutrients onto the reef as ...

For its diminutive size, the 0.3-square-kilometer (0.11-square-mile) reef supports abundant populations of orange clown fish and vagabond butterfly fish, two species separated by both appearance ...

A species of butterfly ... fish’s scientific name, Prognathodes basabei, is named after Pete Basabe, a veteran local diver from Kona who, over the years, has assisted with the collection of reef ...

Scientists have named a new species of butterflyfish ... of reef fishes for numerous scientific studies and educational displays in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The new fish ...

a team of researchers studied how a mass bleaching event affected 38 species of butterflyfish. The colorfully patterned reef fish are the first to feel the effect of bleaching because they eat ...

A new study demonstrates that marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef are doing double duty, protecting underwater life while helping fisheries thrive, reported Phys.org. Nearly half of all ...

It is less than 12 months since Australia's Great Barrier Reef ... reef fish find it harder to identify competitors following mass bleaching events. There are around 129 species of butterflyfish ...

a team of researchers studied how a mass bleaching event affected 38 species of butterfly fish. The colourfully patterned reef fish are the first to feel the effect of bleaching because they eat ...

which the butterfly fish feeds on, is itself highly vulnerable – to attacks by plagues of crown-of-thorns starfish (thought to be triggered by humans releasing excess nutrients onto the reef as ...