Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is all about superlatives. It is the world’s largest coral reef, extending some 1,400 miles off the east coast of Australia and covering some 133,000 square miles.

More information: F. Javier González-Barrios et al, Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage ...

The Great Barrier Reef is home to an incredible amount of biodiversity, with over 9,000 known species of marine life National ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even ...

Some 2,000 different fish species have been identified on the Great Barrier Reef, and new ones are found each year. Scientists estimate that the reef is home to 4,000 mollusk species and over 250 ...

Today, Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef hold 12 of the 22 IGFA line class world records for black marlin. The section of the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns north to just past Lizard Island holds more ...

Fish swim at the Great Barrier Reef. (Courtesy of Wavelength, Australia) The extremely warm ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida have been damaging coral reefs.

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.

The Great Barrier Reef should be added to the list of world heritage sites that ... Spanning nearly 133,000 square miles and home to more than 1,500 species of fish and over 400 species of ...

A school of fish swim through a break in the coral along the Great Barrier Reef on August 10, 2022, on Hastings Reef, Australia. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images ...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55128-7 Cite This Page : ...