"During our study, 100 fish shrank out of the 134 fish that we studied." Rather than getting slimmer, these clownfish shrank by getting shorter, with the degree of their reduction depending on the ...

Clownfish Shrink Down Their Bodies to Survive Ocean Heat Waves, New Study Suggests The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that ...

Let’s get small. The team observed 67 breeding pairs of wild clownfish—briefly caught and photographed for distinctive markings and measured before being returned to the water—living on ...

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 ...