Reef "beauty salons" staffed by tiny cleaner fish aren t just for parasite removal they may also shape the microbial life of ...

Small fish may have small brains, but they're not stupid. A common coral reef fish called damselfish ... must learn to make the connection. [See Images of Freaky-Looking Fish] "Most prey fish ...

Cleaner fish shape coral reef health by affecting where and how microbes spread. Removing them changed fish behavior.

Maui Ocean Center photo Growing up in Hawaii ... Their beaklike mouths are used to probe corals and reef crevices in search of small invertebrates and crustaceans, but are also used in cleaning ...

On a recent afternoon in February, a group of engineers sat in a boat in the Bahamas with a laptop and a game controller, driving a small ... reef can reduce native reef fish by 79%. [Photo ...

“So that’s a question here.” A school of small reef fish, one of many fish species that inhabit these waters. Photo by Enric Sala/National Geographic. Beger also questioned whether the reefs ...

The 3D coral models were made by replicating a coral skeleton using 50 iPhone images of the coral taken from all angles ... “But then we realized the small reef fish didn't care if the habitat was ...

In coral reefs off the Caribbean island of Curaçao, the researchers set up tripods connected by a nylon line so that 3D models of dummy fish could be pulled past colonies of real damselfish.