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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polyps are also vulnerable to predation by animals like sea slugs and crustaceans. These predators can significantly reduce the number of polyps that survive to transition into the medusa stage ...

Their searches focused on the widespread sea animal Parazoanthus axinellae ... Seen up close, each polyp has a tube-like body and an opening ringed with dozens of “transparent” tentacles.

But what exactly is coral bleaching, and why is this so damaging? We’ll explain everything you need to know, in a nutshell… Corals are tiny animals called a ‘polyps’, that typically live in large ...

Each coral animal is called a polyp. Most corals live in large groups ... This creates a balanced ecosystem where many different sea creatures can live and survive.