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.

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

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

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 ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat, it is changing and impacting life in the world’s oceans right now. Among its ...

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Theresa Rueger, Melissa Versteeg and Dr Chancey MacDonald discuss a new study they led which ...

Some clownfish off the coast of Papua New Guinea shrank their bodies during a marine heat wave — and the smaller fish were ...

As the world contemplates dealing with more extreme temperatures, one coral reef fish has found a novel way to beat the heat: ...

NEW YORK — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the ...