Dory, the small blue fish with a bad memory from the "Finding Nemo" franchise, is a blue tang, or a Paracanthurus hepatus in scientific terms. Native to the Indo-Pacific and found in coral reefs ...

Dory — the animated blue tang fish who is a friend of the beloved fish characters Nemo and Marlin — made her debut in a starring role this weekend to large audiences in Columbia. Her popularit ...

Now, with two weeks to go until the very-hyped opening of Finding Dory — the Disney/Pixar sequel to Nemo --concern mounts for what may happen with the Pacific blue tang. "You'll be shocked to ...

While you’re sitting around waiting for the movie start, here’s a little bit of knowledge you can drop about Dory’s species, the Pacific Blue Tang. 1. IT HAS A LOT OF ALIASES. Though the ...

Pixar fans were introduced to Ellen Degeneres’ Dory, the energetic and forgetful Pacific regal blue tang, in Finding Nemo, and 13 years after that release, she’s leading her own movie ...

So when the sequel Finding Dory came out 13 years later, starring a forgetful but lovable blue tang fish, there were concerns among conservationists that the wild population would suffer the same ...

Unlike the Clownfish that hooked audiences in Finding Nemo, the Blue Tang that stars in Finding Dory doesn’t do well in captivity, and is captured in a way that can damage its reef habitat ...

Dory’s real-life counterpart is a Paracanthurus hepatus, or Pacific blue tang fish, which is sometimes referred to as a royal blue tang or hippo tang. The name is slightly misleading ...