In their earliest days, most ocean-faring fish actually reside in calm ribbons of water at the surface, taking advantage of the food and shelter they can provide. Unfortunately, these aquatic ...

How do minute fish larvae find their way in complex and dangerous environments? And what role do different light colors play in their journey? These questions have hardly been researched. A new study ...

Plastics can enter the food web at an unexpected point: larval fish as small as the tip of a pencil. Larval fish congregate in ocean slicks — ribbons of calm water that form naturally on the ocean’s ...

As an 18-year-old college freshman, I am about to become a great-great-great grandmother. To baby fish. A fish tank containing four orange platyfish sits on my desk. One of them, Shasta, is pregnant.

Who knew that baby salmon were such explorers? The long-held understanding that baby salmon emerge from the streams where they hatched to head out to sea actually is missing a far more complex story – ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new study released Monday says baby fish around Hawaii are eating a large amount of plastic particles. The study was published in the journal, “Proceedings of the ...

Teeming off Hawaii’s famous beaches is a complex web of life—sharks, turtles, seabirds—that relies enormously on tiny larval fish, the food for many species. In their first few weeks of existence the ...

If you’ve ever wondered what is a baby fish called, the answer is more interesting than you might expect. In the world of aquatic life, baby fish are not just given one name for their entire early ...

A group of Australian scientists has created the world's first computer model that can accurately predict the movements of baby coral trout across the Great Barrier Reef. The study confirms the ...