Writing for The Conversation, Dr Theresa Rueger, Melissa Versteeg and Dr Chancey MacDonald discuss a new study they led which ...

Resting Reef turns ashes into underwater memorials. In just one year, it has already attracted 46 new marine species.

Some clownfish off the coast of Papua New Guinea shrank their bodies during a marine heat wave — and the smaller fish were ...

Scientists discovered that clownfish (the orange and white fish from Finding Nemo) can actually shrink to survive heatwaves.

Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict, research reveals.

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 during a ...

Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, ...

Clownfish, the brightly colored reef fish, have revealed a surprising survival strategy in the face of climate change: they ...

They thought clownfish were the best species to study to fill that gap, since they've been extensively studied and are well understood. The fish live on Indo-Pacific coral reefs where heat stress has ...

A new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.

Finding more heat-resistant coral species could be the key to staving off their extinction as ocean temperatures are expected ...