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 ...

It’s safe to say that this distinctive orange and and white creature is one of the most recognizable fish on the planet, due largely to the 2001 hit Finding Nemo. Now, scientists have discovered they ...

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 ...

Clownfish became a household name over a decade ago when Disney released the movie Finding Nemo. Found exclusively in the Indo-Pacific, clownfish are symbiotic animals that only live in sea anemones, ...

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 ...

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.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The colorful anemonefish–aka clownfish–that call the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clownfish are instantly recognizable by their white stripes, which appear as they mature from larvae into adults. But how these distinctive patterns form has long remained a mystery. Now, a new study ...

It turns out that clownfish count each other's stripes to spot their friends... and to chase away their rivals too. Researchers in Japan have found that the fish recognise their friends or enemies by ...