When Morgan Bennett-Smith descended to a familiar reef in the central Red Sea in September 2023, he expected to find the same tagged anemones and resident clownfish he had been monitoring for months.
As if the depressing theory that bubbled to the surface years ago that Nemo was just a hallucination wasn’t bad enough, now this! As it turns out, the Barracuda wasn’t responsible for Marlin losing ...
A 2023 marine heat wave in the central Red Sea caused 100% of monitored sea anemones to bleach, followed by the death of 94-100% of clownfish and 66-94% of the anemones across three surveyed reefs.