In 1999, a clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) hatched in the aquarium of a tropical fish hobbyist in the UK. These clownfish ...

Learn how a small genetic change affects cell communication and reshapes the stripes seen in clownfish.

Scientists solve a 20-year mystery after studying a rare clownfish, revealing how cells organize to create patterns across ...

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 ...

Fans of Finding Nemo will love the crystal-clear underwater footage in a YouTube clip captured at Anilao in the Philippines. It provides a close-up view of two clownfish tending to their batch of eggs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...