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"Actually having good followers helps leaders get on with their tasks," said Andrea Manica, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge who led the study recently published in the journal Current Biology.
Read moreEach winter the sleepy industrial town of Whyalla becomes a bustling regional center. Divers, scientists, documentary filmmakers and tourists armed with snorkel gear flock to the dusty red South Australian mining town to see one of the world’s most unique marine spectacles. Each winter thousands of Australian giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) migrate from the reaches of the Upper Spencer Gulf to the shallow rocky reef between Fitzgerald Bay and False Bay to participate in the penultimate event of their short lives.
Read moreIn research aimed at understanding the process of fish population decline when coral reefs sustain major damage, PhD student James Kerry and Professor David Bellwood have found that big fish show a marked preference for sheltering under large, fla
Read moreOrcas have been studied extensively in the northeast Pacific ocean, where resident killer whales eat fish, but migrating whales eat marine mammals.
Read moreIn the journal Marine Biology, lead author Dr. Evan D’Alessandro and University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science colleagues Drs.
Read more“Parrotfishes are the constant gardeners of the reef.
Read more“Dangerous” can be circumstances and wrong attitudes like harassing or provoking them, or else disregarding other basic safety rules such as not spear-fishing in their presence.
Read moreIn the early part of their life cycles, after some days out in the blue as pelagic larvae, anemone fishes settle on the coral reef once they find a suitable host sea anemone.
Read moreWhale sharks for example, are interesting in a Goodyear Blimp kind of way, but they really don’t do much other than swim monotonously forward, mouth agape, consuming copious amounts of plankton.
Read moreX-RAY MAG: Tell us how how it all began. What inspired you to start the Great White shark encounters?
Read moreIt is now well understood in Zoology that many animals express what we might call personalities.
Read moreGround-breaking research by Jonathan Werry, from the School of Environment at Griffith University, found the Nerang River upstream with its less salty water and supplies of mullet to be the perfect creche for young bull sharks.
Read moreSeveral theories have been put forward by experts as to why white sharks sometimes bite people. In this article we examine three of the most prominent theories and look at why most of these incidents are non-fatal.
Read moreResearch into the behaviour of shrimps exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine, showed that their behaviour is dramatically affected.
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