Comb jellies, or ctenophores, are marine invertebrates with squishy bodies propelled by hair-like cilia. They’re relatively simple creatures, although they do have muscles, nervous systems and sensory ...
We have a container in our touch tank at Hampton Beach with some small and very fragile animals that we ask the visitors to observe only. It contains nudibranchs (sea slugs), a tiny sea anemone, glass ...
Essexella, a 310-million-year-old fossil sea anemone from Illinois. Credit: Papers in Palaeontology Billions of sea anemones adorn the bottom of the Earth's oceans—yet they are among the rarest of ...