Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study ...

Clownfish like Amphiprion ocellaris (pictured in in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea) are known to make their homes amid the ...

Of the 134 clownfish studied, 100 got shorter, the team found, and this shrinking increased their chances of surviving the heat stress by up to 78%. Senior study author Theresa Rueger, a marine ...

Melissa Versteeg, a Ph.D. researcher at Newcastle University's School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, led the study. Of this newly-discovered ability for the clownfish to shrink ...

Now, scientists have found that the clownfish, the saltwater fish featured in the hit Disney film Finding Nemo, has been observed temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress. Melissa Versteeg ...