Lurking in the deep sea is a marine creature thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones. But the animal, which has tentacles measuring more than 6 feet long, isn't an anemone but rather the ...

There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that are closely related to jellyfish. This ...

A new look at the starlet sea anemone’s stinger gets right to the point. Live-animal images and 3-D computer reconstructions have revealed the complex architecture of the tiny creature’s needlelike ...

Symbiosis is the long-term, close interaction between two or more biological species, most often for the benefit of one or both parties. These interactions highlight the diversity of nature. One ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet ...

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 ...

A picture of an adorable sea anemone with googly eyes has been posted to social media. The creature was caught by Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov, who posted a picture of the sea anemone to his ...

Lurking in the deep sea is a marine creature thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones. But new research suggests that the monster, which has tentacles measuring more than 6 feet (2 meters ...

Researchers have identified the first known example of one animal, a boxer crab, stimulating another animal, a sea anemone, to reproduce asexually. From the outside, it's a bit of an abusive situation ...

New research on tube anemones is challenging everything that evolutionary biologists thought they knew about sea animal genetics. The mitochondrial DNA of the tube anemone, or Ceriantharia, is a real ...