Researchers cruising for creatures that live in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean found a new species of sea anemone living in the unlikeliest of habitats -- the carcass of a dead whale. A ...

The genome of the starlet sea anemone - Nematostella vectensis, a delicate, few-inch-long animal in the form of a transparent, multi-tentacled tube - was sequenced at JGI as part of its Community ...

A deep-water creature once thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones, with tentacles reaching more than 6.5 feet long, actually belongs to a new order of animals. The finding is part ...

Researchers discovered that starlet sea anemones reshape their entire bodies during regeneration to maintain their original proportions. Using spatial transcriptomics, the team identified enzymes ...

Some animals, such as the starlet sea anemone, can regenerate large parts of their body, even after major injuries. EMBL researchers have shown this regeneration response involves cells and ...

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 ...

Part of the difficulty in studying their diet is that while most sea anemones have long, thick tentacles which they use to capture and subdue prey, these predators sport a dense bouquet of tiny ...

How could anything live under 800 feet of ice? How could it get there? A new species of sea anemone, Edwardsiella andrillae, is observed living anchored in the ice at the underside of the Ross Ice ...

The anemone is part of a new species, genus and family, according to the study. Photo by Yanghong Yu via Unsplash A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan ...

Sea anemones have a symbiotic relationship with the common clownfish – the anemones’ venom-filled tentacles give the fish protection from predators, ... Rivera’s research on campus was part of the ...