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 ...

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

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 ...

The research recorded clownfish living on coral reefs slimmed down drastically when ocean temperatures rocketed in 2023.

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

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 ...

A new study reveals that clownfish use a surprising strategy to adapt their bodies to ocean heat waves: They shrink.

Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to boost their chances of surviving marine heat waves, according to a ...

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