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

Some clownfish off the coast of Papua New Guinea shrank their bodies during a marine heat wave — and the smaller fish were ...

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Theresa Rueger, Melissa Versteeg and Dr Chancey MacDonald discuss a new study they led which ...

Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, ...

Clownfish possessed the ability to ''catch up'' and grow back when their environment got less stressful, showing how living ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

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

Fishial' Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound.

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 ...