Discover the symbiotic relationship between these beautiful, venomous animals and the clownfish that often dwell within their tentacles.

Every egg cell and sperm cell depends on meiosis, a tightly choreographed process in which chromosomes find their partners, ...

Floating outside the salt marsh silt it usually nestles in, the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) looks a little bit like a miniature squid or those alien heptapods from Arrival (2016).

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea ...

The tube-dwelling anemone is an ancient sea creature that resembles a prehistoric flower. The animals live slow, long and predictable lifestyles and look fairly similar from species to species. It'd ...

Sea anemones have a backup strategy when food is difficult to find: their symbiotic relationship with tiny algae living under their skin. New findings describe how anemones control this remarkable ...

They’re the first animals known to turn food into extra limbs. By Cara Giaimo People have a lot of strategies for dealing with the effects of large meals — constitutionals, antacids, workouts, naps.

Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their food, and bleached anemones retain these microfibers longer than healthy ones, according to new research. The work ...

Starlet anemone grow tentacle arms based on how much food they intake. Courtesy of Anniek Stokkermans/European Molecular Biology Lab Heidelberg To many humans, the popular proverb “you are what you ...

Scientists have discovered that the number of tentacle arms a sea anemone grows depends on the amount of food it eats. Your genetic code determines that you will grow two arms and two legs. The same ...

Did you think that sea anemone venom was only for protecting themselves?Last time, I was surprised to learn that sea anemones ...

Did you think sea anemones were a type of plant growing in the ocean?They stick to rocks, sway back and forth, and look like ...