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 ...

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Their gentle disposition disappears, however, in the presence of another favorite food: sea anemones. When feeding, the butterflyfish turn into vicious predators, darting in to rip off the ...

Sea anemones have adapted allowing them to become good hunters. Dr. Mark Griffer introduces the feeding techniques of the assumed to be motionless sea anemones. Feeding tentacles move slowly to ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust observed the anemone feeding while a remotely operated ... 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii and involved a sea anemone, according to the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Sea anemones have adapted allowing them to become good hunters. Dr. Mark Griffer introduces the feeding techniques of the assumed to be motionless sea anemones. Feeding tentacles move slowly to ...

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 ...

An expert in the biology of sea anemones and other marine invertebrates, Pearse was curious to know more about the neon green anemone—why was it more fluorescent than others of the same ...