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Finding smaller Nemo? Clownfish shrink to survive ocean heatwaves, finds study
Clownfish, the brightly colored reef fish, have revealed a surprising survival strategy in the face of climate change: they ...
‘Shrinking Nemo’: Study finds clownfish can shrink to survive higher sea temperatures
Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to ...
Clownfish shrink to survive stress of marine heat waves as climate change warms oceans
Scientists observed this behaviour in Papua New Guinea, where warming oceans and bleaching sea anemones forced the fish to ...
Clownfish shrink during marine heatwaves – new study
Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, ...
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Clownfish shrink during marine heat wave to survive, scientists say
Some clownfish off the coast of Papua New Guinea shrank their bodies during a marine heat wave — and the smaller fish were ...
Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves
NEW YORK — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the ...
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10 Key Facts About Iguanas
Scientists have just made a pretty cool discovery about iguanas in Fiji: roughly 35 million years ago, they sailed an ...
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Shrinking Nemo: Clownfish survive heatwaves by shrinking
Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict, research reveals.
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It’s getting hot in the ocean, so clownfish are shrinking their bodies to survive
Other animals also decrease in size to beat the heat. Marine iguanas get smaller during El Niño events that usher warm waters into the Galapagos. But this coping strategy hadn’t yet been ...