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 ...

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

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 ...

Parasphaerasclera mcfaddenae is a new species of soft coral that has a yellow center and long polyps with tentacles ... There are about 160 documented sea anemones and corals, with 11 soft ...

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 ...

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 ...