His hands framed the sides of his face, moving it from side to side, in the silly side-show clown way she disliked ... The most self-assured person she knew was Barb, so that’s who she’d been. When ...

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

NEW YORK — 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 ...

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

Researchers believe marine heatwaves could be impacting fish growth patterns—and Nemo’s only getting smaller. Clownfish like Amphiprion ocellaris (pictured in in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea ...

A clownfish, however, can. In a new paper published today in Science Advances, a team of researchers revealed that these tiny “Finding Nemo” fish can actually shrink to survive heat stress, allowing ...

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 ...

Fish that slimmed were more likely to survive. Heat waves are becoming more common and intense underwater due to climate change. Warmer water temperatures can bleach sea anemones that clownfish ...

The new study on clownfish, however, suggests individual fish are shrinking over mere weeks in response to a heat wave, which, in the case of the Papua New Guinea event, pushed temperatures in the ...

As the marine world heats up, clownfish are showing an unsuspected talent for adapting to increasingly extreme conditions. Faced with heat waves exacerbated by climate change, these little fish ...