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.

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The Coral Triangle has often been compared to the Amazon rainforest, based on the sheer scale of its biodiversity. And now, ...

The affected reef, which took decades to grow, supported various marine species, including clownfish, shrimp, and coral ...

The colorful anemonefish–aka clownfish–that call the carnivorous and stingy anemones on coral reefs home have a happy and carefree reputation among humans. However, their real personalities ...

Australia has experienced coral die-offs beginning in 2015 at the Great Barrier Reef, when heat waves there caused excessively high water temperatures a few years in a row.

Like many coral reef fish, clownfish males do guard the eggs against predators – but once they hatch, the larvae journey out into the open waters between reefs to feed on plankton until they are ...

The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching event in April 2024, making it the fourth of its kind since 1998. The previous record from the 2014 to 2017 mass bleaching affected just ...

Versteeg's team measured 134 clownfish along reefs in Papua New Guinea every month for five months and monitored water temperatures during a marine heatwave. They found that some clownfish, which are ...