When the newly elected Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the crowd, liturgical ...

“Conversely, the fish around rat-infested islands behave ... that invasive rat populations should be eradicated from tropical islands, since they can effect ecosystems on land and in the water.

Jewel damselfish are normally highly territorial fish that aggressively defend and cultivate small patches of algae that grow on corals surrounding tropical islands. The plant patches are greatly ...

Invasive rat populations on tropical islands have long been ... Now we are learning that they change the behaviour of fish around the islands too. In the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

These tropical fish sightings come as temperatures steadily ... Harwell runs the company Coastal Blue Persuasion, offering charters from Dauphin Island, Alabama. “The fish we look for, we ...

Scientists have discovered for the first time that invasive rats on tropical islands are affecting the territorial behaviour of fish on surrounding coral reefs. The new study, led by scientists ...

A team of scientists, including Ben Frable of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, discovered a new species of tropical fish during an expedition to remote Mexican islands ...

Even today, setting foot on the remote tropical atolls more than 2,000 ... the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The fish around rat-infested islands also had to farm bigger territories ...

Two females of the newly discovered species, Halichoeres sanchezi or the tailspot wrasse. The males are larger and have different coloration. Credit: Allison & Carlos via https://today.ucsd.edu ...

Super Typhoon Yagi slammed into southern China's Hainan island on Friday ... Australia has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate Australian waters.