This photo provided by Morgan Bennett-Smith shows a clownfish near an anemone in Kimbe Bay, off the coast of Papa New Guinea.

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

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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