When healthy, anemones look like pink flowers blossoming on rocks and coral, and serve as homes for clownfish, made famous by ...

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 the ...

The sea anemone is a genetic oddball, with some traits similar to plants and others more closely resembling higher animals. The sea anemone is a genetic oddball, with some traits similar to plants and ...

Despite its apparent simplicity - a tube-like body topped with tentacles -, the sea anemone is actually a highly complex creature. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the CNRS, ...

There’s an old saying in journalism: If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. Man bites dog: That’s news. So how about a sea anemone that chows down on a bird? Researchers have reported finding a giant ...

Sea anemones may look like exotic underwater plants but have long been classified as predatory animals. Yet is seems that genetically they really are half animal and half plant as the creatures show a ...

The sea anemone is an oddball: half-plant and half-animal, at least when it comes to its genetic code, new research suggests. The sea creature's genes look more like those of animals, but the ...

The newly named Relicanthidae sea creature, which lives near hydrothermal vents, was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria). New research places this animal in a new order—a ...

Despite its apparent simplicity -- a tube-like body topped with tentacles -- the sea anemone is actually a highly complex creature. Scientists have just discovered over a hundred different cell types ...

The sea anemone is an oddball: half-plant and half-animal, at least when it comes to its genetic code, new research suggests. The sea creature's genes look more like those of animals, but the ...

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 (2 meters) long, isn't an anemone but ...