The study, led by biologists at Harvard University, found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of their own cells in which the chloroplasts are stashed. The kleptosomes ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Jackson Arn reviews “Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic,” a surprising show at the American Folk Art Museum.

The second half of Anemones pivots, with flashes of garage, grime, and deep house. ‘Dobro Jutro’ makes use of the bagoo flute (best known as the hook to Skepta ’s ‘That’s Not Me’). In Xylitol’s hands, ...

Why ‘Hot Springs’ Draw the World’s Largest Gathering of Deep-Sea Octopuses Some 20,000 octopuses congregate near an inactive underwater volcano off California’s coast, using heat from ...

According to A. Alcock, the scientist who discovered the second species of blanket hermit crab in 1899, “the sea-anemone settles upon the hinder part of the young hermit-crab’s tail, and the ...

Guided by scientific drawings, and later by live specimens, the Blaschkas used an array of sophisticated, often proprietary glassblowing techniques to create the pieces of each model, which they ...

Unlike most hermit crabs, the blanket-hermit crab does not use empty shells for protection, and instead lives symbiotically with a sea anemone. The crab uses the anemone to cover its soft abdomen ...

Unlike some other sea anemones, the frilled variety is a uniform color throughout — no streaking or banding. Their size can vary too, there are a number of varieties, some grow to 12 inches tall ...

Over the past 20 years, the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, a small estuarine animal, has emerged as a powerful model system for field and laboratory studies of development, evolution ...

Mixing stinging cells from sea anemones into skin cream sounds like a bad practical joke. But this novel approach to painlessly injecting drugs could be a needle-free way to deliver insulin to ...

Anemones can also be found higher up the beach in rock pools. If an anemone is not in a rock pool when the tide goes out, it will draw its tentacles in and close up, preventing excessive water ...