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

Clownfish like Amphiprion ocellaris (pictured in in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) are known to make their homes amid the ...

A new study reveals that clownfish use a surprising strategy to adapt their bodies to ocean heat waves: They shrink.

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 New Guinea. Fish ...

They thought clownfish were the best species to study to fill that gap, since they've been extensively studied and are well understood. The fish live on Indo-Pacific coral reefs where heat stress has ...

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

The wild clownfish are almost identical to the ones depicted in the movie Finding Nemo, in which a timid clownfish living off ...

Scientists discovered that clownfish (the orange and white fish from Finding Nemo) can actually shrink to survive heatwaves.

As the world contemplates dealing with more extreme temperatures, one coral reef fish has found a novel way to beat the heat: ...

During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure ...

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 ...