This beautiful, six-inch--long butterfly fish is just one of about 25 species of butterflyfish that live in Hawai i, but it also lives all through out the tropical Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

Lancaster University marine biologist Sally Keith and her colleagues were looking into how the behaviour of butterflyfish might vary geographically — but then a mass coral bleaching event hit, and the ...

A species of butterfly fish discovered more than 20 years ago finally has a name. Scientists from Bishop Museum and NOAA published a description of the species, located in the deep reefs of the ...

The common longnose butterflyfish (pictured) is one of two longnose butterflyfish species found in Hawaii. Its Hawaiian name is lauwiliwili nukunuku ‘oi‘oi. -- Maui Ocean Center photo Growing up in ...

Back about 200 years ago a British explorer was in India to describe some new species of butterflies. But they were not called butterflies back then! Their real name was flutter by. That is because ...

Because they are relatively well studied, scientists generally don’t expect to come across a new butterflyfish species. But that’s exactly what happened on an expedition by scientists with the San ...

Coral-feeding butterflyfishes comprise a diverse family of reef inhabitants whose survival and interactions are tightly linked to the health and composition of scleractinian corals. Many species ...

Animal Crossing would have us believe that the black bass is the most metal fish in the ocean, but it doesn’t even come close to the wrought-iron butterflyfish. This fish looks like it’s been cast in ...

Scientists have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Scientists from NOAA and the Bishop Museum have published a ...

The Chevroned Butterflyfish, a colorful fish found in tropical oceans around the world, faces extinction due to overexploitation, pollution and climate change, report researchers writing in the ...