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.

As the marine world heats up, clownfish are showing an unsuspected talent for adapting to increasingly extreme conditions.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Climate change is no longer a distant threat, it is changing and impacting life in the world’s oceans right now. Among its ...

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

Scientists studying clownfish discovered that the distinctive orange and white striped clownfish shrink during heatwaves.