A group of Australian scientists has created the world's first computer model that can accurately predict the movements of baby coral trout across the Great Barrier Reef. The study confirms the ...

A common close partnership which sees baby fish sheltering from predators among the poisonous tentacles of jellyfish will be harmed under predicted ocean acidification, a new University of Adelaide ...

In their earliest days, most ocean-faring fish actually reside in calm ribbons of water at the surface, taking advantage of the food and shelter they can provide. Unfortunately, these aquatic ...

If you’ve ever wondered what is a baby fish called, the answer is more interesting than you might expect. In the world of aquatic life, baby fish are not just given one name for their entire early ...

Teeming off Hawaii’s famous beaches is a complex web of life—sharks, turtles, seabirds—that relies enormously on tiny larval fish, the food for many species. In their first few weeks of existence the ...

There are so many amazing animals in the world, and each one has its own story. People often give animals fun nicknames based on how they look or behave. For example, a dog is sometimes called "man's ...

We’re slowly realizing that we’ve contaminated an enormous swath of the planet, from the deepest ocean trenches to the highest mountain peaks, with plastic. Animals haven’t been spared, either. In ...

Parents’ choices about when to breed have lifelong consequences for offspring. For the sixbar wrasse, the flexibility of babies to delay their critical swim towards adulthood frees adults to spawn ...

Plastics can enter the food web at an unexpected point: larval fish as small as the tip of a pencil. Larval fish congregate in ocean slicks — ribbons of calm water that form naturally on the ocean’s ...