More formally known as seabather’s eruption (SBE), sea lice rash results from swimming in tropical or subtropical sea water containing certain tiny jellyfish and anemones.

Scouring archives of known sea anemones and comparing them to the unidentified creatures, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Macrodactyla fautinae, or the tiger anemone.

The dropped tentacle can regenerate into a new swimming anemone. Despite the common perception that anemones can regenerate asexually, only a handful of species, such as the swimming anemone, can ...

Sea anemones, it turns out, also benefit from maintaining an active lifestyle, particularly as they grow from ovoid-shaped swimming larvae to sedentary, tubular polyps.

Sea anemones, it turns out, also benefit from maintaining an active lifestyle, particularly as they grow from ovoid-shaped swimming larvae to sedentary, tubular polyps.

Sea anemones, it turns out, also benefit from maintaining an active lifestyle, particularly as they grow from ovoid-shaped swimming larvae to sedentary, tubular polyps.

Phlyctenactis tuberculosa, common name the wandering sea anemone or swimming anemone, is a species of sea anemone. It is native to shallow seas around Australia and New Zealand.

Tentacles of starlet sea anemones (Nematostella vectensis) are covered in tiny hairlike cells that sense vibrations in the water from prey swimming nearby.

Sea anemones, though considered the flowers of the sea for their gracefully flowing tentacles and array of colors, are not plants at all. The tentacled organisms are meat-eating animals that ...

A newly discovered species is the first known sea anemone to live burrowed into the bottom of sea ice.

Clownfish do a wiggle dance to increase seawater circulation to their sea anemone hosts, helping the sea creatures breathe, a new study suggests. The findings, published today (Feb. 27) in the ...

Scientists show that in a simple, brainless sea anemone, the same genes that control head development in higher animals regulate the development of the front end of the swimming larvae.