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Coral catsharks are nocturnal hunters, meaning they feed at night. These sharks like to inhabit coral reef communities in shallow coastal waters. Relatively secluded, coral catsharks can primarily be ...

These fish visit different locations at different times of day. At night, they stay near sandy, muddy or gravel bottoms to feed, and during the day they shelter on reefs, in caves, under ledges and ...

When female red rock crabs shed their shells, the males will guard them for weeks on end until their new shell has hardened. Red rock crabs can be found in estuaries, rocky and soft bottom habitats in ...

This species of hogfish travel in groups of one male and several females. Throughout the western Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, these hogfish inhabit rocky areas and coral reefs.

Gold-spotted rabbitfish are able to blend into coral habitats almost seamlessly with their unique coloring and dotted pattern. Gold-spotted rabbitfish have pale blue bodies covered in tiny orange dots ...

Florida manatees are native to the United States, as seen in both the fossil records and in Native American sites. Depending on the time of year they can be frequently found in Florida, Alabama, and ...

Lemon gobies are sometimes referred to as poison gobies because of the toxic mucus they produce. In the Indo-Pacific, these fish live in coral reef colonies and can often be found amongst branches of ...

This coral species spawns from April to August every year. Using its tentacles, mustard hill coral will catch and eat smaller marine organisms that drift by. Coral also have a special algae—called ...

Females in this species live longer and grow to be bigger than their male counterparts. Blacknose sharks can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea living in coastal ...

Due to their slow growth and low reproduction rate, goliath groupers have experienced a population decline of at least 80% in the last ten years. These fish can grow to be over 8 feet (2.5 meters) ...

Nettles that live closer to shore in estuary or bay environments tend to be smaller, growing to be 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, while nettles that live in the open ocean grow to 7 inches (19 ...