At the Tennessee Aquarium, biologists have developed a remarkable system for collecting tiny fertilized eggs from their ...

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 common close partnership which sees baby fish sheltering from predators among the poisonous tentacles of jellyfish will be harmed under predicted ocean acidification, a new study has found. A common ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...