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

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 New Guinea. Fish ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A clownfish is seen near an anemone in Kimbe Bay, off the coast of Papa New Guinea.  Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight ...

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 ...