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 ...

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 anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals, including humans, still follow.

"Anemones are important for the fish because they provide protection from predators and the larger the anemone, the more space the fish has to move around and feed while still being save.

A picture of an adorable sea anemone with googly eyes has been posted to social media. The creature was caught by Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov, who posted a picture of the sea anemone to his ...

But sea anemones, whose species number more than 1,000, also are generally hearty and highly adaptable, though their chosen environment at Tomales Bay is similar to their native context, Monuki said.

A study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a molecular mechanism known from bilaterian animals to form their back-to-belly body axis. This mechanism ("BMP shuttling ...

Sea anemones were thought to be a rare fossil because of their softness, but paleontologists found countless fossils had been in plain sight. Fossils from a northern Illinois creek once thought to ...

By putting sea anemones into test tubes with oxybenzone and controlling what kinds of light they were exposed to, we could see whether the sunscreen was reacting to light. Djordje Vuckovic , CC BY-ND ...