Clashing colonies of sea anemones fight as organized armies with distinct castes of warriors, scouts, reproductives and other types, according to a new study. The sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima ...

The sight of a clownfish wriggling through the stinging tentacles of its anemone is a familiar and seemingly well-understood one to most people—the stinging anemone provides a protective home for the ...

The partnership between clownfish and sea anemones is one of the most iconic in the animal world. Unlike in Pixar’s film Finding Nemo, clownfish seldom stray far from their anemone. During the day, ...

NIGHTSEA's origins are in exploration and documentation of underwater fluorescence. This video shows a wonderful chance find from one of our dive trips – an anemone spawning. We stumbled on this in ...

Evolutionary and developmental biologists have discovered that sea anemones display a genomic landscape with a complexity of regulatory elements similar to that of fruit flies or other animal model ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lybia boxer crabs held engage in fights where they steal sea anemones from one another, after which each crab splits their sea anemone into two identical clones Researchers have described a little ...

If you're a pom-pom boxer crab, you'll often need to fight to stay alive. When the bell rings, you'll need your anemone to pack some extra sting. Don't have one? Just steal a bit from a friend and ...

There’s an old saying in journalism: If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. Man bites dog: That’s news. So how about a sea anemone that chows down on a bird? Researchers have reported finding a giant ...

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 ...

Warrior anemones reach over from several rows behind the front to attack animals from a neighboring colony. Clashing colonies of sea anemones fight as organized armies with distinct castes of warriors ...