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Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

Hundreds of feet down in the Arabian Sea, a 2-foot-long creature with a "large" head and regrown tail moved through the water ...

Synodus autumnus, or the autumn lizardfish (Iroha-eso in Japanese), derives its name from its warm-toned coloration, ...

The anemone, named Discoactis tritentaculata, or “umi-no-Fujisan,” which translates to “Mount Fuji of the ocean” in Japanese, ...

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 ...

To test whether sea anemones use Chordin as a local inhibitor or as a shuttle, the researchers first blocked Chordin production in the embryos of the model sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. In ...

Some nudibranchs eat venomous animals such as sea anemones or Portuguese men-of-war and store the venom in fleshy spikes on their bodies called cerata. They’re hermaphrodites, with their reproductive ...

A rainbow sea slug was found in the Isles of Scilly in 2022 "Sea slugs are like normal slugs you find in your garden but jazzed up," Eleanor Goodman says. Ms Goodman, a Devon Wildlife Trust ...

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 ...