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 ...

Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size ... comprising nearly one billion animals called polyps that make up a larger structure “about the size ...

The actinia are members of this division—the beauteous sea anemones ; they fasten themselves ... The most extraordinary of all the polyps' peculiarities is the fact that some of them can be ...

Coral polyps, the reef's building blocks ... in 1997-98 was linked to a severe El Niño year and record-high sea-surface temperatures—in some spots 3°F higher than normal.

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).

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Polyps in the gallbladder may not cause any symptoms. Depending on the type of polyps, they can be benign, be a sign of inflammation, or potentially lead to cancer. Polyps are abnormal tissue ...