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 ...

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 ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef ... Sharks and silver jacks flash by. Anemone arms flutter and tiny fish and shrimp seem to dance a jig as they guard ...

But what about those little creatures that live in the sea? While they may ... is between a coral polyp and its zooxanthellae. Coral colonies consist of anemone-like polyps that house ...

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 ...

Other animals in this group include jellyfish and sea anemones. All Cnidarians have ... Each coral animal is called a polyp. Most corals live in large groups or colonies of hundreds or thousands ...