NEW YORK — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size. Scientists observed that some of the ...

Researchers believe marine heatwaves could be impacting fish growth patterns – and Nemo’s only getting smaller.

A new study shows that orange clownfish can reduce their body size when water temperatures are unusually high.

Wanting to know how clownfish cope with changes to their environment, we repeatedly measured 134 wild fish in Kimbe Bay, ...

It belonged to an ancient group of sea creatures called radiodonts, which are related to today’s insects, spiders and crabs. Fossils show it had a unique body part with 16 segments and gills ...

Microplas­tics have been found in marine animals across Singapore’s coastal ... fiddler crab (Austruca annulipes), garlic bread sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra) and synaptid sea cucumber ...

All linked stories were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists. Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote ...

unlike any living animal.” About the size of an adult human’s index finger, Mosura and its swimming flaps vaguely resemble a moth, which led researchers to call it the “sea moth.” ...

In recent years, the wild sea otter population has plummeted as hunters have targeted the animal for its dense and valuable fur. The situation is made even more dire when combined with ...

SINGAPORE - Microplastics have been found in marine animals across Singapore’s coastal ... In the case of the garlic bread sea cucumber, researchers studied its respiratory trees – a branching ...

These tasks seem completely irrelevant to these animals in their natural environment, so why are researchers interested in them? As someone who studies the intelligence of insects, much of my own ...