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Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals, including humans, still follow. The discovery could shake up the timeline ...

So while the sea anemone's genome, gene repertoire, and gene regulation on the DNA level is surprisingly similar to vertebrates, its post-transcriptional regulation is undeniably plant-like -- and ...

A study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a molecular mechanism known from bilaterian animals to form their back-to-belly body axis. This mechanism ("BMP shuttling ...

Internal anatomy: See González-Muñoz et al. (2012) and Grajales & Rodríguez (2014). ... Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, Ceriantharia, Zoanthidea) from marine shallow-water ...

These unusual anemones are rarely seen on land because they spend their lives drifting in the open ocean, clinging to floating debris. They literally look like bird poop if you did not know what ...

Scientists found sandy, yellow sea animals in coastal caves & discovered new species: Francisca’s cluster anemone, study said & photos show.

Where Does the Venus Flytrap Sea Anemone Live? The Venus flytrap anemone lives deep in the ocean at a range of around 3,300 to 6,600 feet. This is the ocean’s midnight zone, and it’s so far ...

These fossilized “blobs” were a puzzle 310 million years old. Paleontologists decided that they were odd jellyfish named Essexella asherae. But the creature’s anatomy was unlike that of any ...

As Dr. Plotnick brushed up on sea anemone anatomy, the ambiguous blobs came into focus. “All the things that bothered us about this being a jellyfish now makes sense,” he said.

Scientists at the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) working on sea anemones of the Lakshadweep group of islands have found mass anemone bleaching off the Agatti island.

Sea anemones sometimes eat … ants. But why? New research shows how little we know about the diets of some underwater scavengers—and the intricate connections between land and marine food webs.