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

Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to ...

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

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

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

Scientists observed this behaviour in Papua New Guinea, where warming oceans and bleaching sea anemones forced the fish to ...

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

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

Some clownfish off the coast of Papua New Guinea shrank their bodies during a marine heat wave — and the smaller fish were ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...