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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Animals are changing their behaviors and bodies in response to man-made climate change. In recent years, some birds have exhibited larger beaks that help them dispel excess body heat. Animals that ...

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 ...

Clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) have a surprising survival strategy: they shrink in length — not just lose weight — to survive marine heat waves and avoid social conflicts, boosting their heat ...