A new invasive species has been discovered on the Jersey Shore: an anemone from across the Atlantic Ocean that scientists describe as a greenish blue snot ball. The Actinia equina, also known as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Partially buried in the sand of a beach in Singapore, a venomous sea creature spread its 96 arms. It was probably waiting for a ...

A 2023 marine heat wave in the central Red Sea caused 100% of monitored sea anemones to bleach, followed by the death of 94-100% of clownfish and 66-94% of the anemones across three surveyed reefs.

The Red Sea, circled by desert landscapes, is home to marine life accustomed to the water’s bathtub-like temperatures—often reaching 85 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. But in the past three ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a direct genetic link between fluorescence and color in sea anemones -- those soft and tentacled tide pool creatures often encountered by beachgoers. For the first ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea ...

When Morgan Bennett-Smith descended to a familiar reef in the central Red Sea in September 2023, he expected to find the same tagged anemones and resident clownfish he had been monitoring for months.