Researchers employed interdisciplinary approaches to show how sea anemone 'exercise' changes their developing size and shape, uncovering an intimate relationship between behavior and body development.

As humans, we know that an active lifestyle gives us some control over our form. When we hit the pavement, track our steps, and head to the gym, we can maintain muscle development and reduce body fat.

Hormonal changes caused by motorboat noise cause clownfish to hide, skip meals and attack their neighbours - putting damselfish in distress. Working on the reefs around Moorea in French Polynesia, an ...

The first description of clashing armies of sea anemones has revealed unsuspected military tactics. “Sea anemone fights are amazing,” says David Ayre of the University of Wollongong in Australia.

There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that are closely related to jellyfish. This ...

When I joined the rocky intertidal lab of Jennifer Burnaford, Cal State Fullerton associate professor of biological science, I had almost zero hands-on experience or knowledge in marine ecosystems. I ...

For those about to sting another anemone, we salute you. A look into the secret, volatile life of tide pool inhabitants. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

Another Life: The smell of low tide, as Rachel Carson described it once, is "compounded of the faint, pervasive smell of worms and snails and jellyfish and crabs - the sulphur smell of sponge, the ...

As humans, we know that an active lifestyle gives us some control over our form. When we hit the pavement, track our steps, and head to the gym, we can maintain muscle development and reduce body fat.

Working on the reefs around Moorea in French Polynesia, an international team of scientists exposed 40 pairs of clownfish to recordings of natural reef sounds or motorboat noise for up to two days.