Anemonefish (also known as clownfish) are feisty little creatures, enthusiastically defending their anemone homes from intruders. And while it is sometimes fine to share with anemonefish of other ...

Several anemonefish or clownfish share one anemone, with the largest fish being a female. This is a trio of common clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris). Dauin, Philippines. (Credit: Klaus Stiefel / CC ...

Clownfish, the orange-, black- and white-striped fish made famous in the movie "Finding Nemo," are a gossipy bunch, popping and clicking amid their anemone homes to defend and reinforce their social ...

To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Scientists observed that some of ...

A Partnership Built on Poison The sea anemone is a predator. Its tentacles carry nematocysts, microscopic harpoons that fire ...

Many people tend to think of clownfish, with their distinctive white bars against an orange, red, or black background, as a friendly sort of fish, perhaps influenced to some extent by the popular ...

Learn how a small genetic change affects cell communication and reshapes the stripes seen in clownfish. In 1999, a clownfish hatched in a U.K. aquarium with a pattern that didn’t match the usual ...

The world fell in love with clownfish back in 2003, when Disney released a little film called Finding Nemo and brought the fish species’ beauty to the world’s attention. Soon after its release, pet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Morgan Bennett-Smith shows a clownfish near an anemone in Kimbe Bay, off the coast of Papa New Guinea.

To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies during a heat wave off the coast of Papa New Guinea. Fish ...