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 ...

Clownfish like Amphiprion ocellaris (pictured in in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) are known to make their homes amid the ...

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

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

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

The new study on clownfish, however, suggests individual fish are shrinking over mere weeks in response to a heat wave, which ...

New research by scientists now shows that clownfish are shrinking. Here's why. U.S. court orders former "supercop," wife to ...

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

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 ...

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