In the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef, reef fish species richness has experienced big fluctuations—flipping from periods with high numbers of different species, and periods where that ...

Where is the Great Barrier Reef? ... More than 1,500 fish species live on the reef, including the clownfish, red bass, red-throat emperor, and several species of snapper and coral trout.

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney are searching for “super corals,” species that are naturally more ...

The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef, covers nearly 133,000 square miles and is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 species of hard corals and dozens of other species.

A new “exciting” species of fish was discovered in the Great Barrier Reef, the first new species found in the reef, the world’s largest, in years, according to Australian researchers.

The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, lost half its coral between 1995 and 2017, a new study has found. Mark Kolbe / Getty Images file Oct. 14, 2020, 7:42 AM EDT ...

Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral ...

Great Barrier Reef: Never before recorded species of fish found hiding ‘in plain sight’ Queensland researchers have discovered a never-before-recorded species of fish hiding “in plain sight ...

It may be tiny, but this fish – the first completely new species found on the Great Barrier Reef since 2019 – is causing a stir among marine biologists that far outweighs its size.

We reveal that the fish communities that make their home on the Great Barrier Reef have changed substantially from the beginning of monitoring in the 1990s, both in the number of species and their ...