Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to ...

The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that shrank ...

New research finds clownfish shrink their bodies to survive warming oceans. Scientists observed some of the orange-striped ...

A new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.

Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict, research reveals.

Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, during a marine heatwave that started in March 2023 and ...

Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to boost their chances of surviving marine heat waves, according to a ...

NEW YORK — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies during a heat wave off the coast of Papa ...

Clownfish like Amphiprion ocellaris (pictured in in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) are known to make their homes amid the tentacles of sea anemones. A new study suggests that another species of ...