This yellow tang is just one of the colorful and popular fish sought in Hawaii waters by commercial aquarium fish collectors. Luc Viatour photo The Maui Ocean Center hopes to have 20 percent of ...

This classic saltwater aquarium fish – popularized by the movie Finding Nemo – is a hardy type and ... Great Barrier Reef, Southeast Asia, Japan and Indo-Malaysian region.

A two-year experiment found that coral reefs could endure in heated water better than expected—with one huge caveat.

The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest ...

This story appears in the January 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. When Andrew Stanton set out to make an animated children's movie set in the ocean and faithful to "the real rules of ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — In the face of increased human pressures and climate change, a team of scientists have launched a new online tool to assist marine managers and restoration experts to bolster the ...

A world-first soft robotic hand, developed by researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, could revolutionize ...

The National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition has discovered the largest known coral in the world, spanning a ...

Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and purrs ... However, the researchers also conducted a similar experiment in fiberglass aquarium tanks. In the tanks, they checked for larval ...