Sea anemones are found in the world's oceans and are often vibrant colors. ... The orange anemone has huge white blobs in its middle of its bright orange body that look like a pair of eyes.

With extreme caution, Dr. Rodriguez suggested the fat white anemone belongs to the family Actinostolidae and the orange ones to the family Hormathiidae. Image An example of an Actinostolidae ...

Turtles aren’t a sea anemone’s only nemesis, however. Warming waters, increasingly common because of climate change, can cause sea anemones to bleach just like coral reefs.

Orange clownfish, or Amphiprion percula, are shown in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. How quickly this fish develops its stripes depends on the sea anemone species it chooses to live in, a study has ...

Anemonefishes are a group of damselfishes "that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones," researchers said in a July 10 study published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. They are ...

The sea anemones also produce a toxin that deters clownfish predators. The orange-and-white fish avoids the toxin by slathering itself in anemone mucus.

Sea anemones are classified as animals, not flowers, despite their name inspired by the terrestrial anemone flower. Recent research, however, indicates that they can, technically, be considered ...

But with sea anemones, DNA is not always definitive when identifying species, Rack said. ... And they appeared to glow an orange color when illuminated by the ROV's lights, ...