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

"It's especially painful because the Red Sea is a place many researchers have been hoping and hypothesizing is a thermal ...

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

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

When healthy, anemones look like pink flowers blossoming on rocks and coral, and serve as homes for clownfish, made famous by ...

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 ...

Clownfish and anemones depend on one another. The stinging arms of the anemones provide clownfish with protection against predators. In return, the fish keep the anemone clean and provide nutrients, ...

The partnership between clownfish and sea anemones is one of the most iconic in the animal world. Unlike in Pixar’s film Finding Nemo, clownfish seldom stray far from their anemone. During the day, ...

The sight of a clownfish wriggling through the stinging tentacles of its anemone is a familiar and seemingly well-understood one to most people—the stinging anemone provides a protective home for the ...

With its vibrant orange color and white stripes, also known as bars, the clownfish is among the most iconic sea creatures. But how does Nemo develop its distinctive look? Scientists are learning more ...

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, ...