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 ...

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

A study has found that clownfish are starting to shrink due to heat stress as the waters in the ocean continue to climb, ...

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

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

According to a study published in the journal Science Advances, university researchers have discovered that clownfish reduce ...

The researchers also found that coordination is important for clownfish, as they have a higher chance of surviving heatwaves ...

New research by scientists now shows that clownfish are shrinking. Here's why.

Scientists observed that clownfish appear to shrink in size in order to survive ocean heatwaves, according to a study ...

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

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