The scientists studied the petite, yet eye-catching blue-headed wrasse in the upper Florida Keys to monitor larval settlement success. "The key to any larval reef fish's survival is to find food ...

The researchers looked at the bluehead wrasse, a reef fish that swims in small groups of a dominant blue-headed male and a posse of smaller yellow females. Normally the male and females stay as ...

Jenny Graves receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erica Todd has received funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Foundation and the University of Otago for work ...

The fish are beautiful, in shades of brown, blue, red and orange, and almost resemble something you might find in a tropical aquarium. They say that no two wrasse have the same pattern.

Todd studied bluehead wrasse, which she said had a social organisation that rivals the most outrageous soap opera. "There are two types of males — large, aggressive blue-headed males that openly ...

The green-blue Napoleon wrasse has safely moved from quarantine and into a 186,000-gallon ocean exhibit in the aquarium at the American Dream mall, said representatives of the aquarium.