Seeing clownfish darting among the tentacled folds of an anemone is like watching butterflies flitting around a flowering plant in a breeze-blown meadow—mesmerizing. Twenty-nine species of ...

They form another, more famous symbiotic alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a ...

As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten ...

Clownfish Make Up for a Lack of Resources for Their Anemone It was previously known that anemones offer fish a safe space, for which they then defend the flower animal accordingly. However, a ...

Sea anemones are fearsome predators that stun their prey—mostly small fish and crustaceans—with a powerful neurotoxin. For clownfish, however, the anemones are home. Clownfish have a thick layer of ...

Listen here to an aggressive territorial display from a dominant female clown fish, defending her anemone on the reef in Moorea, French Polynesia. You can read the full BBC Future article here.