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Eunice siphoninsidiator, or the tube ambushing marine bristle worm, was discovered within the structure of glass sponges by a ...

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 ...

At first, the animals looked like nudibranchs, sea slugs “well-known for showcasing ... This means that they live directly on ...

Within the structure of the coral reefs, members of almost every phyla of plants and animals live and die ... cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

Although this sometimes happens by mistake when your fin grazes the sea floor, lots of sediment rising up can harm coral and ...

Scientists from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for Wildlife (NCW) report in PNAS NEXUS an unusual ecosystem below the third largest coral reef ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts ... global warming and sea level rise. Corals that are resilient to thermal bleaching have abundant ...