After hatching from fertilized eggs, clownfish larvae are ready to feast. Smaller, slower, and visually quite unlike the juvenile and adult clownfish from Finding Nemo, these larval clownfish have ...

Rijal and his friend went searching for clownfish along the shore during low tide. The receding tide left natural pools filled with water, where many fish, including bright and lively clownfish, were ...

A Townsville primary school's world-famous nemo nursery has undergone a major expansion, cementing its status as the world's ...

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When a scientist visited the Red Sea during the 2023 heatwave, he noticed the organism that hosts clownfish had turned ghostly white.

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 ...

Sea anemones normally kill and eat fish. But clownfish, like the one in the movie Finding Nemo, can nestle into anemones without getting stung and consumed; the anemones actually protect the clownfish ...

Emily Fobert receives funding for this research from The Fisheries Society of the British Isles and from an Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. She is affiliated with the conservation ...