Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

A team of researchers has provided the first example of how color patterns on a coral reef fish species can drive its evolution into many distinct species. The researchers looked at feeding and mating ...

Coral is the new blush. The popularity of soft pink in recent years is getting a bump toward the orange range with the announcement of Pantone’s 2019 Color of the Year: Living Coral. Highly evocative ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of why some closely-related species of an iconic reef fish have vastly different colour patterns, while others look very similar. Innovative research led by ...

The dazzling variety of coral fish. On the left is the copperband butterflyfish, on the right the Picasso triggerfish. Nemo, alias Amphiprion ocellaris, belongs to the clownfish group, which includes ...

The Pantone Color of the Year 2019 is here, and it’s—wait for it—living coral. “Vibrant yet mellow,” Pantone says, Living Coral offers us everything from warmth to nourishment—comfort to buoyancy.

Denise’s pygmy seahorse, barely larger than a fingernail, blends perfectly with its coral home. Found in the western Pacific, ...