A University of Queensland study has found the further coral disperses, the better chance reefs have at bouncing back from ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Barrier Reef ... "There are over 1,500 species of fish, about 400 species of coral, 4,000 species of mollusk, and some 240 species of birds, plus a great diversity of sponges, ...

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 ...

It was first sighted in a sand burrow by scientists mapping the changing biodiversity on and around Lady Elliot Island at the Great Barrier Reef’s southern end. “It’s been a while since a ‘never ...

Great Barrier Reef endangered by hottest oceans in 400 years, study finds. ... The reef is home to a wide variety of natural life, with 600 types of coral and 1,625 fish species alone.

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.

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.

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 ...