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, ...

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 ...

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 Smithsonian’s National Zoo has become the first in the zoo and aquarium community to use coral larvae settling techniques to successfully grow two species of anemones—an accomplishment that will ...

A deep-water creature once thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones, with tentacles reaching more than 6.5 feet long, actually belongs to a new order of animals. The finding is part of a ...

Sea anemones that live on the rocky coasts of the Atlantic are exposed to large differences in water temperature. Depending on the individual's personality, they cope with the heat differently. Even ...

Scientists who are always on the lookout for some small sign that we are not alone in the universe have recently a couple of very small discoveries, that have them dreaming of big things. Biologists ...

Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, off the Antarctic coast, unsuspecting geologists discovered a trove of life in a place that was thought to be completely inhospitable. Scientists and engineers with the ...

Zoe Richardson, a doctoral student at the University of California at Davis, walks through mud flats along the shore of Tomales Bay in Marshall at low tide on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Richardson is ...

DURING the past century, a series of brackish lagoons was established by storm action along the east coast of England at Shinglestreet, near Ipswich. There are eight lagoons of varying sizes, one of ...

Scientists who are always on the lookout for some small sign that we are not alone in the universe have recently a couple of very small discoveries, that have them dreaming of big things. Biologists ...