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Scientists have uncovered a 300-million-year-old ecosystem in Northern Illinois.
Armed with a camera and a sense of wonder, Sapeer captured a wall draped in sagging sea anemones. ''My friend and I went to ...
Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...
The primo sea-critter exploring conditions can reveal not only the tasty shellfish, but also starfish, anemones, crabs, sea cucumbers and jellyfish.
Scientists have long assumed that anemonefish's tight-knit relationship with sea anemones, their protective hosts, was the main engine behind their evolutionary diversification. But the team wondered ...
Sea slugs are one of the world’s most stunning, diverse, and adaptable animals. Not only are sea slugs beautiful to look at, ...
But to capture prey — as some of us find out the hard way — jellyfish have a net of tentacles that contain venomous, stinging ...
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 genome of the sea anemone is not as simple as we thought. The complexity of its regulatory elements is similar to that of fruit flies and other animals, suggesting the principles of gene ...
How the Sea Anemone Developed Symmetrically The formation of the back-to-belly axis evolved much earlier than previously thought, suggests a study of sea anemones.
The anemones are a type of predatory marine invertebrate. They protect the clownfish from predators and even supply some scraps of food that get caught in their tentacles.
A 'rarely seen' sea creature, called a sea anemone, is washing up on the Texas coast, according to researchers.