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 ...

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 ...

The clownfish helps lure unsuspecting fish toward the anemone with its bright colors. The fish are killed by the venom produced by the anemone’s stinging tentacles and eaten.

Sea anemones normally kill and eat fish. But clownfish, like the one in the movie Finding Nemo, can nestle into anemones without getting stung and consumed; the anemones actually protect the clownfish ...

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 ...

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 ...

A colourful clownfish swims among some flesh-eating anemones As these pictures show, the tiny clown fish can be seen rushing out of the anemone's tentacles to harass potential trespassers.

Moreover, clownfish can’t be stung by anemone tentacles, so one might consider this to be a match made in heaven. "Clownfish – like Nemo from Finding Nemo – and anemones are a great example of this ...

Clownfish live in sea anemones for protection, according to Laudet. The anemones “have stinging tentacles that can kill other fishes but not clownfish,” he explained.

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 ...

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 ...