The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

Molecular cloaking mechanism unveils the iconic partnership between anemonefish and anemones. The symbiotic relationship ...

Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed on a photo of two fish peeking out of an anemone. "It was so arresting," Stanton says. "I had no idea what kind of fish they were ...

Despite their misleading name, yellow cluster anemones are not sea anemones but rather zoantharians ... Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. →2-foot-long creature with 'secretive' ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea anemones without being stung by their venomous tentacles, solving a century-long mystery.

Sea anemones took their names in the late 1700s ... daisy comes from the Old English phrase dægesege: the “day’s eye,” as the ...

Invasive sea creatures are turning ... The marine creatures are called beadlet anemones and are known to sting their prey. They first caught Diederik Boonman's eye during a class assignment ...

Among other things, it highlighted the symbiotic relationship between clownfish and their sea anemone hosts — where the anemone’s sting protects the fish from predators, and in return, the fish help ...

Relatives of the sea anemone include coral and jellyfish. Like jellyfish, the sea anemone has stinging cells on its tentacles. This is how the sea anemone catches its prey and defends itself from ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea anemones without being stung by their venomous tentacles, solving a century-long mystery.