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 ...

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

NEW YORK — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...