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Researchers say a creature once thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones is actually the first known organism in a new order of animals.
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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Scouring archives of known sea anemones and comparing them to the unidentified creatures, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Macrodactyla fautinae, or the tiger anemone.
Sea anemone study shows how animals stay 'in shape' Scientists have shown how regenerating sea anemones restore their shape following a major injury Date: November 29, 2024 Source: European ...
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. They are ...
Its unique shape, with broad swimming flaps and a slender abdomen, earned it the nickname “sea-moth” from the researchers—hence the name Mosura, a nod to the Japanese kaiju Mothra.
The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is potentially immortal. Using molecular genetic methods, developmental biologists led by Ulrich Technau from the University of Vienna have now identified ...
A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was snagged by a carnivorous giant green anemone at the Seal Rock State ...
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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. This ...