The Disney movie "Finding Nemo" left out a few fascinating details about clownfish. As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother ...

Nemo—a clownfish of the species Amphiprion percula—introduced millions of children around the world to a wondrous tropical ecosystem: the coral reef and its denizens. Clownfish get their name ...

A specialist in capturing reef fish in coral caves and crevices ... into cracks and crevices in the coral are a target, as the shark’s slender body allows it to squeeze into impossibly small ...

“They are seeing more and more; they are seeing them in the back reef and in areas where they never saw sharks before.” This ...

Read about different predator-prey relationships on the reef. Like lions on the prowl ... But some, like the tiger shark, are powerful enough to bite right through the carapace and kill the ...

The shark had the fish in its jaws and was shaking it violently. Gray reef sharks devour hundreds, perhaps thousands, of groupers during the weeks the fish congregate at Fakarava. They injure many ...

Sosimo, a spearfisherman from Owarigi in the Solomon Islands, in the water with a blacktip reef shark. These people regularly encounter sharks underwater. Spearfisherman Moses draws outlines of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Endangered Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) and other shark species are making a striking recovery in Belize after plummeting due to ...

Since the 1980s, Caribbean reef shark populations have dropped 52 percent. In some places, their numbers have plummeted by as much as 99 percent, and since 2021 the sharks have been classified as ...

The dataset included over 5,300 sightings of six shark species, including hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks, between 2013 and 2019 in the Protea Banks reef of South Africa.