Because they are relatively well studied, scientists generally don’t expect to come across a new butterflyfish species. But that’s exactly what happened on an expedition by scientists with the San ...

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A species of butterfly fish discovered more than 20 years ago finally has a name. Scientists from Bishop Museum and NOAA published a description of the species, located in the deep reefs of the ...

This beautiful, six-inch--long butterfly fish is just one of about 25 species of butterflyfish that live in Hawai i, but it also lives all through out the tropical Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

You are what you eat. That’s a maxim that biologist Nicolai Konow has taken to heart as he studies how butterflyfish survive and thrive by eating coral reefs. He examines everything “from food to poop ...

Back about 200 years ago a British explorer was in India to describe some new species of butterflies. But they were not called butterflies back then! Their real name was flutter by. That is because ...

The Chevroned Butterflyfish, a colorful fish found in tropical oceans around the world, faces extinction due to overexploitation, pollution and climate change, report researchers writing in the ...

Animal Crossing would have us believe that the black bass is the most metal fish in the ocean, but it doesn’t even come close to the wrought-iron butterflyfish. This fish looks like it’s been cast in ...

Scientists have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Scientists from NOAA and the Bishop Museum have published a ...

Humans have found many ways around the vicious game of biological competition. You didn't crawl out of the hospital nursery past hordes of hungry predators, and you probably didn't fight anyone for ...