Sharks have a branding problem. For many people, the word alone conjures images of horror: sleek predators stalking through ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish are large, spiny, and eat coral reefs and without enough natural predators to control their ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

Life is tough when you're a coral.To begin with, corals only reproduce over a few nights each year in a synchronised breeding ...

Sleep is essential for much of the animal kingdom. During the night, neuron and tissue repair mechanisms are activated to aid ...

For decades, crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) have been rampaging out of control. These pizza-size sea stars are native to the ...

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

A new research study found that well-managed fisheries can support the recovery of large marine predators such as seals and ...

Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases like Stony Coral Tissue Loss (SCTLD). Since the 1970s, more than half of the ...

Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Ecological interactions, such as predation, are fundamental events that underlie the flow and ...

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as dazzling underwater metropolises, home to a kaleidoscope of fish, invertebrates, and plants. But a new study reveals they play an even more surprising role: ...