Along the ground, they noticed a yellow sea creature with dozens of tentacles. It turned out to be a new species. Researchers visited several sites in the western end of the Mediterranean Sea between ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

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 ...

But what exactly is coral bleaching, and why is this so damaging? We’ll explain everything you need to know, in a nutshell… Corals are tiny animals called a ‘polyps’, that typically live in large ...

The connection between polyps allows for the sharing of nutrients ... Even a 1ºC increase in sea surface temperature can stress zooxanthallae, causing corals to bleach (Glynn 1993).

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 local grocery store was overstocked, so they had a big sale. When I arrived, the place was packed with people having sex and ...

Coral reefs are formed by tiny organisms called polyps. Scientists have discovered that deep-sea black corals found off the coast of Hawaii are the longest-living. Inhabiting the coastal waters ...

It will then start to mature and grow. 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 ...

The recent cold front that swept through the Texas coast has left an unusual sight on local beaches: Thousands of sea pens.