Clownfish off the Papua New Guinea coast are shrinking. The Conversation spotlighted a troubling survival adaptation that ...

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

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here's how that might help them deal with warmer water temps.

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 Papua New Guinea ...

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 ...

How do clownfish survive a heat wave? By shrinking themselves down. Researchers believe marine heatwaves could be impacting fish growth patterns—and Nemo’s only getting smaller.

A human can’t shrink away from the threats of climate change. A clownfish, however, can. In a new paper published today in Science Advances, a team of researchers revealed that these tiny “Finding ...

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 ...

Climate Solutions Shrinking Nemo: How clownfish survive deadly marine heat waves. A new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.

The fish live on Indo-Pacific coral reefs where heat stress has been increasing and has become more severe—an environment that is close to the thermal tolerance limits of clownfish.

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 ...