Orange clownfish, or Amphiprion percula, are shown in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. How quickly this fish develops its stripes depends on the sea anemone species it chooses to live in, a study has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clown fish: Whence the white stripes? Date: September 4, 2018 Source: CNRS Summary: Scientists have been training their attention on the developmental and evolutionary determinants of white ...

These feisty anemone-dwellers might alter their behavior based on the number of white stripes on other clownfish. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY ...

Size & description. Most false clownfish are orange with three white bands on the head and body. The white bands are outlined in black. Their bodies are a bit more than 3 inches (88 millimeters ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. — Under ideal conditions, a single clownfish can lay enough eggs to produce more than 500 minuscule, wriggling hatchlings. So when researchers at a University of Maryland lab s… ...

Nemo, it seems, never needed finding. The orange and white clownfish star of the hit cartoon movie "Finding Nemo" really is able to find his own way home after spending months at sea, an ...

Nemo and his clownfish friends might count : Short Wave At least, that's what a group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University thinks. The team ...

Scientists studying clownfish discovered that the distinctive orange and white striped clownfish shrink during heatwaves. According to a new study, the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies ...