Tracking 134 clownfish for five months reveals that they reduce their size as a defense mechanism against rising sea ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists observed this behaviour in Papua New Guinea, where warming oceans and bleaching sea anemones forced the fish to ...

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

Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, ...

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

Clownfish live inside sea anemones, which sting most other fish. The clownfish are immune and get protection. In return, they clean the anemone and may scare off small predators.