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 ...

Jellyfish, particularly the Turritopsis dohrnii, possess an extraordinary ability to cheat death. Read on to learn how a ...

The connection between polyps allows for the sharing of nutrients ... The anemone fish lives among the stinging tentacles of the sea anemone and gains a refuge from predation while the anemone ...

These “sand-encrusted” polyps form “small groups embedded and assembled in a common tissue” of a single colony, the study ...

Sea anemones have similar-looking cells on their ... surface ectoderm of a live tentacle of pouiv::kaede transgenic adult polyp, rotated around the y-axis. pou-iv::kaede expression is shown ...

We’ll explain everything you need to know, in a nutshell… Corals are tiny animals called a ‘polyps’, that typically live in large colonies. Similar to a sea anemone, a polyp has a squidgy body, with a ...

Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into young jellyfish.' An adult jellyfish is known as a medusa. Jellyfish belong to a group called Cnidaria, which also includes sea ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

A new article expands our understanding of sensory neurons in the tentacles of sea anemones, linking them to kidney disease in humans through a common gene. Biological sciences researchers from ...