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

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study ...

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

But what, exactly, is the effect of marine heatwaves on the clownfish, also known as the clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula)? Setting out to study how heatwaves transform these fish over time ...

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

Those that shrank had a better chance of surviving the heatwave. The clownfish, Amphiprion percula, lives in small social groups within anemones on coral reefs. As the movie Finding Nemo indicated ...

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. Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid ...

Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict, Newcastle University research reveals. The fish, recognizable from the starring role in the film ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...