Losing Nemo - acid oceans prevent baby clownfish from finding home

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Feb 3, 2009 4:00 AMNov 5, 2019 2:03 AM

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In the movie Finding Nemo, the eponymous clownfish grows up in the security of his home reef and must find his way back after being fry-napped by an overenthusiastic diver. In reality, the larvae of clownfish spend their early lives adrift in the open ocean and only after weeks, or possibly months, do they return to the reefs where they were born.

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