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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, 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 ...
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.
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 new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.
Clownfish, beloved from 'Finding Nemo', are shrinking in response to warming oceans, a Newcastle University study finds. Researchers explore this survival strategy.
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 ...
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 ...
Clownfish, beloved from 'Finding Nemo', are shrinking in response to warming oceans, a Newcastle University study finds. Researchers explore this survival strategy.