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 ...

COLUMN. A study conducted during a global coral bleaching event revealed that clownfish living in sea anemones were able to ...

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

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 ...

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

During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure their bodies. Between February and August, they calculated the length of 134 ...

Scientists have discovered that clownfish are shrinking in size during marine heat waves as a survival mechanism ...

A clownfish inside an anemone. Scientists monitored and measured 134 colourful clownfish in Kimbe Bay during an intense heat ...

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

Faced with heat waves exacerbated by climate change, these little fish adopt a surprising strategy to ensure their survival.