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 ...

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

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 ...

As the marine world heats up, clownfish are showing an unsuspected talent for adapting to increasingly extreme conditions.

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.

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.

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, 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 ...

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