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 ...

Cruising around their anemone, they snag plankton ... In the wild, where grouper or moray eels threaten, clownfish rarely live past seven to ten years, but in the safety of captivity they can ...

According to Muraguchi, clownfish live as pairs in their host anemone. It is rare in Japan for an aquarium to keep this many clownfish in a single water tank, he added. Clownfish can also change ...

Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten by a barracuda. Nemo hatches as an undifferentiated hermaphrodite (as all clownfish ...