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 ...

Who knew that baby salmon were such explorers? The long-held understanding that baby salmon emerge from the streams where they hatched to head out to sea actually is missing a far more complex story – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 study has found. A common ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Science Magazine retracted the study described below on May 26, 2017, citing the following reasons: “(i) lack of ethical approval for the experiments; (ii) absence of original data for ...

After scuba diving and shooting video at Tunnels Beach one day I had a tourist come up to me and say she saw a clownfish out on the reef while snorkeling. I responded back and said that we do not have ...