Clownfish, beloved from 'Finding Nemo', are shrinking in response to warming oceans, a Newcastle University study finds. Researchers explore this survival strategy.

Marine animals are being forced to evolve amid a warming ocean, and a new study shows the clownfish could be shrinking for that reason. The famous clownfish made popular by the hit animated movie ...

The relationship between clownfish and anemones is called a mutually assistive symbiotic relationship. This means that both species get some advantage out of the arrangement.

As the marine world heats up, clownfish are showing an unsuspected talent for adapting to increasingly extreme conditions. Faced with heat waves exacerbated by climate change, these little fish, ...

Scientists observed this behaviour in Papua New Guinea, where warming oceans and bleaching sea anemones forced the fish to cope with extreme conditions.

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 ...

Clownfish seem to become shorter during heat waves, according to the new study. Morgan Bennett-Smith A new study reveals that clownfish use a surprising strategy to adapt their bodies to ocean ...

Though scientists don’t yet know how clownfish shrink, one idea is that they could be reabsorbing their own bone matter. It’s possible the smaller stature may help the clownfish save energy ...