shell-less bodies. But one group of hermit crabs uses a cozier type of protection: a sea anemone. These anemone-wearing hermit crabs are collectively known as “blanket hermit crabs” for the ...

There are at least 35 other symbiotic sea anemone species known to science that live on the shells of hermit crabs. This newest species is the fifth of its genus but the first found in Japanese ...

They “protect themselves from predators by using toxic algae or stinging sea anemones,” which ... even double up by attaching an anemone to their snail shell. If they move to a new shell ...

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 ...

producing crowded areas of sea anemones among the rocks, eel grass and scattered sea shells along Tomales Bay’s rugged beaches. The sea anemones also belong to a family of anemones that host ...

Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in order to ...

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.