Sea anemones, also called flowers of the sea, are stunning creatures that add a spark to any reef tank. Although they look like plants, anemones are animals with unique care requirements. They are ...

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 ...

Giant green sea anemones can be found under the waves on rocky coasts from Alaska to Panama, shimmering a quite brilliant and unlikely green. They eat small fish, mussels, crabs, and sea urchins.

Lurking in the deep sea is a marine creature thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones. But the animal, which has tentacles measuring more than 6 feet long, isn't an anemone but rather ...

While this paper solidifies in my mind that anemones are awesomely creepy, it also shows that these immobile predators utilize a variety of food sources when they need to. All I’m saying is that I’ll ...

Mixing stinging cells from sea anemones into skin cream sounds like a bad practical joke. But this novel approach to painlessly injecting drugs could be a needle-free way to deliver insulin to ...

However, occasionally their appetite demands something more substantial. This Giant Green Anemone is seen feasting on a baby cormorant, off the coast of Oregon, United States.

The first description of clashing armies of sea anemones has revealed unsuspected military tactics. “Sea anemone fights are amazing,” says David Ayre of the University of Wollongong in ...

Researchers from Granada have managed to breed for the first time in captivity a marine animal known as the snakelocks anemone, (Anemonia sulcata), and have also begun breeding a species of sea ...

New time-lapse photography of the abyssal sea floor shows that this type of anemone can eat animals up to six times its weight and moves around the ocean floor by burrowing. The lead author of ...

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.