A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most of their time attached to rocks on the sea bottom or on coral reefs waiting for fish to pass close enough to ...

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous ...

A female polyp of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, shown here laying eggs, can directly inherit the temperature tolerance of the parent generation through the passing on of certain bacteria.

It begins as a larva, develops into a polyp (a small, stationary form that looks a bit like a tiny anemone), and then matures ...

Now we have that system." While coral polyps are reluctant to grow in the lab, the anemone Nematostella vectensis is a breeze to work with. It was the first in the family of jellyfish and corals ...

The anemone's relatively simple body plan and transparent ... develop at defined positions when a larva becomes a primary polyp. When the primary polyp receives food, it can acquire additional ...

Anemone arms flutter and tiny fish and shrimp ... existence to organisms typically no bigger than a grain of rice. Coral polyps, the reef's building blocks, are tiny colonial animals that house ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery announced on Thursday, marine scientists have identified what is now recognized as the world’s ...