The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is obsessed with one research subject — the parrot fish. She says there is urgent work to be done to save them and their home, the coral reefs.

Palau reefs are hosts to over 300 species of coral, nine species of sea grass, and 2,000 species of fish. Each member of this ecosystem depends the others to survive.

Now The Parrot has been caught at record weight, record chasers are pointing their rods at the handful of similarly massive specimens. The Big Girl, perhaps the biggest, had a claimed weight in ...

August 25, 2014 at 12:00 pm - More than 2 years ago The sound of the world’s largest parrot fish swimming toward him, says Douglas McCauley, is not some watery swish, swish. It’s crunch, crunch.