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Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study ...
A new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.
A recent study points to evidence that clownfish are in fact shrinking due to human-provoked temperature changes in the water ...
Learn how these tiny clownfish, famous for their role in the "Finding Nemo" films, survive the trouble of heatwaves.
New research finds clownfish shrink their bodies to survive warming oceans. Scientists observed some of the orange-striped fish shrank during a heat wave off the coast of Papa New Guinea.
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 ...
Now, scientists have found that the clownfish, the saltwater fish featured in the hit Disney film Finding Nemo, has been observed temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress. Melissa Versteeg ...
Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here's how that... Some clownfish are shrinking, according to new ...