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

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

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

The wild clownfish are almost identical to the ones depicted in the movie Finding Nemo, in which a timid clownfish living off ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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