At night, spot prawns swim to more shallow depths to eat and mate before returning to deeper depths for the day. Females of this species are typically larger in size. They can grow up to 10.5 inches ...

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Young Atlantic blue tangs are bright yellow in color despite their name. Atlantic blue tangs stick around coral reef habitats, rocky and grassy coastal areas in the eastern and western Atlantic Ocean, ...

Sand tiger sharks have been know to "gulp" air at the surface of the water, using the air in their stomach to help control buoyancy. Sand tiger sharks can grow up to 20 feet (6.1 meters) long, with an ...

Target rock shrimp can swim up to 456 feet (139 meters) deep. Rock shrimp get their name from their extremely hard exoskeletons. This species can range in color from red and gray to brown and black.

This fish can handle a wide range of temperatures — from 45.5 degrees Fahrenheit (7.5 Celsius) up to 89.6 Fahrenheit (32 Celsius), with extreme cold intervals. This eastern Pacific fish can be found ...

Fishermen consider this fish species an annoyance because they often steal bait off of fishing hooks. Relative to their body size, señorita wrasses have large yellow-orange scales, lined with teal.

Lined seahorses can grow to be over 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) long. The lined seahorse can be found in coastal communities of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of North and South America.

Juvenile sheep crabs cover their bodies with barnacles, algae and marine debris to protect themselves from predators. The sheep crab's carapace, or body section, can grow up to 9.6 inches (24.4 ...

The Sharks & Rays Conservation Research Program is dedicated to studying the biology, ecology and conservation of sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays. These fishes comprise about 1,000 ...

Koran angelfish have a completely different appearance in early stages of their life compared to their adult form. As juveniles, they're deep blue-black in color with thin white stripes spanning their ...

For over 30 years, the Manatee Research Program (MRP) has been involved in a host of research efforts involving manatee behavioral ecology, abundance and distribution, and population demographics, as ...