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

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes ... they need only get past clownfish guards to pick off a delicious ...

Like sea turtles, many coral reef fish spawn away from where the animals will eventually settle and live. Adult coral reef ... including clownfish, outcompete most other marine life in a swimming ...

Clownfish, the brightly colored reef fish ... shrank during the heatwave — a response previously undocumented in coral reef fish. This ability to get shorter (not just slimmer) boosted survival ...

CNN visits a school in Queensland, Australia with a unique approach to the conservation of the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem ... on Earth that humans live? I've been to 20 Caribbean ...

Versteeg found that the fish would get shorter as temperatures rose, the first time that a coral reef fish has been ... This is important because clownfish live symbiotically with either of ...

Versteeg said the discovery means that if clownfish can shrink, there's a chance that many other coral reef fish can do this to survive as well. This story was adapted for the web by Obed Manuel ...

Clownfish typically live among coral reefs, which have also been affected by warming ocean waters. Researchers also noticed that the clownfish in breeding pairs shrank together. "It's a beautiful ...