Adult male Rose-Veiled Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa) shows off his colors for the ladies. This species is found at the equator in the Indian Ocean, living in the coral reefs of the Maldives ...

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Most reefs are associated with tropical waters and colorful fish, not the Great Lakes, but the Saginaw Bay was once the home ...

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BOSTON (AP) — April in Boston is far from tropical, but the New England Aquarium is bringing the wonders of a coral reef to the city. A new exhibition opens Saturday, just in time for school vacation ...

Almost half of all marine angelfishes surveyed so far hybridize frequently, both with close relatives and with distant relations, highlighting the question: what is a species? A juvenile marine ...

Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

On occasion, different species of angelfish produce hybrid offspring even more colorful than the parents. By Sabrina Imbler When American painter Bob Ross said, “There are no mistakes, only happy ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mike Gil, an ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, deployed video cameras to “spy” on coral reef fish over months and found that they ...