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After scuba diving and shooting video at Tunnels Beach one day I had a tourist come up to me and say she saw a clownfish out on the reef while snorkeling. I responded back and said that we do not have ...

Octopuses change color to camouflage themselves from predators such as stingrays and eels. Octopuses have even been observed changing color in their sleep. Octopus's color-changing ability is known as ...

Striped marlin are some of the fastest animals on the planet and one of the ocean's top predators. When hunting in groups, individual marlin will take turns attacking schools of prey fish one at a ...

Some weird deep-sea creatures have been discovered, but just as many bizarre sea creatures live in the shallow waters around coral reefs. There's a real glow-in-the-dark shark with another trick up ...

There’s nothing better than a vibrant pre-spawn color shift – but it’s not the only reason trout change colors. If you were to follow a single trout over the course of a year, you’d notice that its ...

In a stream in southern China, a new species was found lurking under the rocks, waiting for nightfall. Zhong J-H, Yang J, Mo H-L, Chen W-C (2024) Zoosystematics and Evolution On a sunny day along a ...

Many people who keep fish at home notice one common thing after some time. The fish does not look the same as it did earlier. The colour looks different. Sometimes it becomes brighter. Sometimes it ...

Why do octopuses change color? Octopuses, like this young female Giant Pacific Octopus at Birch Aquarium at Scripps, change color to evade predators. (Photo Courtesy of Birch Aquarium at Scripps, ...