By Liz Kimbrough When Morgan Bennett-Smith descended to a familiar reef in the central Red Sea in September 2023, he expected ...

When a scientist visited the Red Sea during the 2023 heatwave, he noticed the organism that hosts clownfish had turned ghostly white.

Divers captured larval fish carrying stinging anemones for protection - revealing a surprising open-ocean partnership never ...

A recent study presents a new tree of life for clownfish-hosting sea anemones along with some surprises about their taxonomy and origins. Thanks in part to the popular film Finding Nemo, clownfishes ...

Finding the message of many films can be challenging, but the moral of “Finding Nemo” seems pretty straightforward: Leave fish in the ocean, where they belong. In the children’s movie, the father of a ...

The humble clownfish is smaller than a human fist. But when a diver approaches its underwater home, among the tentacles of a sea anemone on the world’s coral reefs, the little orange creature rears up ...

made famous by the film Finding Nemo. But in 2023 biologists found an entire population of anemones in the Red Sea that had turned ghostly white in a bleaching event that also wiped out most clownfish ...

Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to boost their chances of surviving marine heat waves, according to a new study ...

The coral reefs of the Red Sea, once home to some of the world’s most vibrant clownfish populations, are turning silent. A ...

The humble clownfish is smaller than a human fist. But when a diver approaches its underwater home, among the tentacles of a sea anemone on the world's coral reefs, the little orange creature rears up ...