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Baby cardinalfish have an internal magnetic ‘compass’ that directs them home at night. Professor Mike Kingsford from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University collaborated with colleagues in Germany to find out how...

A world-first study has found that petroleum-based oil, even in small amounts, causes coral reef fish to engage in risky behaviours, endangering both their lives and the health of the reefs around them. Just as one too many cocktails...

DNA studies on members of the genus Manta have revealed these rays actually belong to the genus Mobula. The full scientific report on the taxonomic reclassification of mantas is available in the Zoological Journal.  For those of us that prefer science in short,...

Poison and venom.  They’re as interchangeable as “good” and “fine”, right?Wrong. It is a common misconception that poison and venom are the same thing.  In fact, they have two very different meanings. Let us explain. First up, we have…...

These fish may or may not be living their best life. It’s hard to tell whether they are indignant, or have simply transcended happiness to a place of true tranquility. We don’t want to put words into their mouth,...

After an unprecedented dieback of mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria last year, a team from James Cook University’s TropWATER centre are now on a mission to film every mangrove between Cairns and Cape York. Dr Norm Duke, leader of the JCU...