Clownfish swim in a tank in the Marine Discovery Centre at Thailand's SAii Phi Phi Island Village resort. "Finding Nemo" made clownfish the stars of the marine world overnight. But fame has been ...

Researchers say the feisty, territorial fish tell between threatening intruders and innocuous cohabitants by counting the stripes across their bodies. Scientists tested the orange fish to gauge their ...

Good luck finding Nemo in the wild. Ever since the beloved Disney character swam into our hearts in 2003, the world’s clownfish population has been decimated as fans flooded pet stores to buy a Nemo ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Clown fish have surged in popularity as pets ever since the movie ...

Of all the Disney Pixar movies, Finding Nemo has to rank among the most beloved. To this day, viewers can't help but be charmed by the timeless tale of a determined clownfish father scouring the ocean ...

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 ...

The animated tale of a clownfish lost at sea in Finding Nemo could have a dark downside as artificial light in coral reefs leaves the famous fish unable to reproduce. Increasing amounts of artificial ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat, it is changing and impacting life in the world’s oceans right now. Among its many impacts, one of the more shocking impacts is the shrinking of marine ...

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 ...

Clownfish do a wiggle dance to increase seawater circulation to their sea anemone hosts, helping the sea creatures breathe, a new study suggests. The findings, published today (Feb. 27) in the Journal ...