Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists at the University of California, ...

Some of the animals “likely arrived during recent El Niño phenomena” when ocean currents “temporarily reversed” direction, ...

Coral reefs, vital for biodiversity below the waves ... eating starfish and the depletion of certain species like the surgeonfish. Fishermen arriving from outside of the area also led to clashes ...

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Plunging into the crystalline waters of the Galápagos Islands, scuba divers swam along a coral ... surgeonfish,” that “inhabits shallow, protected reef ...

Algae grazers like surgeonfish and tangs become increasingly active, scraping food from the coral surface before night falls. The reef’s inhabitants sense the transition approaching, and there ...

One of these species was Acanthurus leucocheilus, “a large surgeonfish,” that ... which “is commonly found swimming above coral and rocky reefs.” The species is widespread throughout ...