The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee ... which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles, getting ...

Sea anemones are fearsome predators that stun their prey—mostly small fish and crustaceans—with a powerful neurotoxin. For clownfish, however, the anemones are home. Clownfish have a thick layer of ...

Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed on a ... Of the roughly thousand species of anemones, only ten host clownfish. It's still a mystery exactly how a clownfish avoids ...

As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten ...

Clownfish Make Up for a Lack of Resources for Their Anemone It was previously known that anemones offer fish a safe space, for which they then defend the flower animal accordingly. However, a ...

Relatives of the sea anemone include coral and jellyfish. Like jellyfish, the sea anemone has stinging cells on its tentacles. This is how the sea anemone catches its prey and defends itself from ...

Rory and Sandy head to the beach to look for sea anemones, whilst Chantelle meets a sea anemone expert on a night-time rockpool safari. Show more Gabi and Izzy want to find out all about sea ...