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 ...

Even before the Disney Pixar vehicle "Finding Nemo" turned a pair of clown fish into popular ocean-dwelling protagonists, these distinctive orange and white fish were adored for their charismatic ...

Tomato clownfish, like the one seen here nestled in a sea anemone, lose all but one of their white stripes (the head bar) as they grow up. (Camille A. Sautereau) In the Disney film Finding Nemo, the ...

Several anemonefish or clownfish share one anemone, with the largest fish being a female. This is a trio of common clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris). Dauin, Philippines. (Credit: Klaus Stiefel / CC ...

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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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ready to dive into a sea of bubbling laughter? You don't have to be a fisherman or ocean lover to appreciate these 50 fish jokes ...

In the Disney film Finding Nemo, the clownfish Marlin worries that his son Nemo may have suffered an injury, and asks him to count how many stripes he has. Nemo gets the answer right — three. But in ...

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 New Guinea. Fish ...