Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together. The man-of-war comprises four separate polyps. It gets its name from the uppermost polyp ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

It will then start to mature and grow. 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 ...

Their searches focused on the widespread sea animal Parazoanthus axinellae, or the yellow cluster anemone ... a colony of Francisca’s cluster anemones looks like a blanket of yellow flowers spread ...