The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most ...

The starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) possesses remarkable regenerative abilities. Cut off its head or foot, and it simply grows a new one. Slice it in half, and each piece becomes a ...

But another theory that our team found particularly intriguing was the possibility that the sunscreen behaved as a light-activated toxin in corals. To test this, we used the sea anemones our ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. In the freshwater polyp Hydra vulgaris, a single population of stem cells is responsible for both gamete production and the sea anemone’s ...

Rory and Sandy head to the beach to look for sea anemones, whilst Chantelle meets a sea anemone expert on a night-time rockpool safari. Show more Gabi and Izzy want to find out all about sea ...

Laurent Ballesta (France) endures below-freezing dives to reveal the diversity of life beneath Antarctica’s ice. This is the first-ever photograph of the only sea anemone in the world known to live in ...

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 are closely related to jellyfish.

Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed on a photo of two fish peeking out of an anemone. "It was so arresting," Stanton says. "I had no idea what kind of fish they were ...

Pore-forming toxins are specialized proteins produced by various organisms, including sea anemones, that can create pores in cell membranes. These toxins play a significant role in the organism's ...