Seeing clownfish darting among the tentacled folds of an anemone is like watching butterflies flitting around a flowering plant in a breeze-blown meadow—mesmerizing. Twenty-nine species of ...

They form another, more famous symbiotic alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s ...

Clownfish, the star of Disney's "Finding Nemo" and the upcoming sequel, are at risk because of the increase bleaching of their homes, sea anemones. The uptick is due to a rise in ocean temperatures.

Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo hatches as an undifferentiated hermaphrodite (as all clownfish ...

Kyushu. Vaulted to international stardom in the wake of Disney’s Finding Nemo, the colorful anemone-dwelling clownfish has grown to become one of the earth’s most recognizable marine creatures.

Clownfish live in symbiosis with sea anemones, which they protect aggressively, even from humans. The clownfish has a protective coating of mucus allowing it to take refuge in the stinging tentacles ...