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. “You can hear a school of them before you see it,” he ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The bumphead parrotfish may be headed for threatened status under the Endangered Species Act according to a 90-day finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The agency has ...

In the high-tech world of science, researchers sometimes need to get back to basics. UC Santa Barbara’s Douglas McCauley did just that to study the impacts of the bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon ...

It was a sight to behold. A group of about 1200 giant bumphead parrotfish have been caught in the act of mating off Palau in Micronesia, turning the water cloudy with their sperm. It’s the first time ...

Scientists recently got back to basics in order to discover the positive and negative effects that bumphead parrotfish exert on coral reef ecosystems. Using direct observation, animal tracking and ...

The humphead wrasse is a friend of coral and eats crown-of-thorn starfish. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature lists the humphead wrasse as endangered and the bumphead parrotfish as ...

In the high-tech world of science, researchers sometimes need to get back to basics. UC Santa Barbara's Douglas McCauley did just that to study the impacts of the bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon ...

Better to restore entire ecosystem’s balance than one of its components Consider bumphead parrotfish, so named because of a cartoonish bump on their heads. Iridescent green with a pink nose, they are ...