In the vibrant world of aquatic life, some fish possess a remarkable ability: they can change color. This mesmerizing trait ...

Nemo and his clownfish friends might count : Short Wave At least, that's what a group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University thinks. The team ...

Clownfish are one of the most distinctive and popular saltwater pet fish. These cute little marine creatures got a massive ...

Coral reef fishes, including clownfish, display a wide variety of colors but it remains unclear how these colors evolved or how they develop throughout a fish's life. Research published in BMC ...

To understand why some stripe combinations do not exist in clownfish, we looked at the development of two species with two different colored patterns in adulthood, A. ocellaris, which has three ...

Clownfish, however, develop immunity to the toxin by very carefully touching the tentacles with different parts of their bodies, according to National Geographic.

After scuba diving and shooting video at Tunnels Beach one day I had a tourist come up to me and say she saw a clownfish out on the reef while snorkeling. I responded back and said that we do not ...

Experiments to mass-produce large and vividly colored clownfish (star of the animated film Finding Nemo) have produced a laboratory full of thousands of orange-and-white Nemo lookalikes.

How do clownfish earn their stripes? The distinctive white stripes in clownfish form at different rates depending on their sea anemone hosts Date: May 24, 2021 Source: Okinawa Institute of Science ...

The clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) belongs to the subfamily of clownfish with the same name consisting of approximately 30 different species.

Clownfish do a wiggle dance to increase seawater circulation to their sea anemone hosts, helping the sea creatures breathe, a new study suggests.