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Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves

https://apnews.com/article/clownfish-climate-change-anemone-heat-wave-81ba0d0fc26a7e3f65e25017facbaae1

New research finds clownfish shrink their bodies to survive warming oceans. Scientists observed some of the orange-striped fish shrank during a heat wave off the coast of Papa New Guinea.

federal reverse - 7mon

Though scientists don’t yet know how clownfish shrink, one idea is that they could be reabsorbing their own bone matter.

They. What?

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Broadfern @lemmy.world - 7mon

Genderfluid AND bonefluid, apparently.

Clownfish are hella metal

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