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Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that ...
Armed with a camera and a sense of wonder, Sapeer captured a wall draped in sagging sea anemones. ''My friend and I went to ...
Here, a sea anemone grows on the rocky bottom of a kelp forest off Monterey, California. Sea anemone come in all sizes, shapes and colors. Here's a look at some of their diversity.
The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis provides a perfect model for researchers -- apart from its stinging tentacles perhaps. It is a small marine invertebrate that is easy to keep in the ...
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 ...
Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals, including humans, still follow.
In the four-year study, researchers created a "tree of life" for sea anemones, which are sometimes called "flowers of the sea" but are actually stationary meat-eating animals.In doing so, they ...
As larvae, starlet sea anemones grow four base tentacles. After they reach adulthood, they add more until they have as many as 24, although most max out at 16. (Other sea anemone species can grow ...
The sea anemone is an oddball: half-plant and half-animal, at least when it comes to its genetic code, new research suggests. The sea creature's genes look more like those of animals, but the ...
Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their food, and bleached anemones retain these microfibers longer than healthy ones, according to new research. The ...