News tagged with sea anemone

In bubble-rafting snails, the eggs came first

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's "Waterworld" snail style: Ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Lost world' discovered around Antarctic vents

Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Personality clash: scientists discover 'bold' sea anemones excel at fighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying the behavioural traits of the common sea anemone have discovered that ‘fortune favours the brave’ when it comes to fighting and setting territorial disputes.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Fossils show earliest animal trails

(PhysOrg.com) -- Trails found in rocks dating back 565 million years are thought to be the earliest evidence of animal locomotion ever found, Oxford University scientists report.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sea spiders and pom-pom anemones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creeping slowly across the deep seafloor on long, spindly legs, giant sea spiders are found in many deep-sea areas. But, as with many deep-sea animals, we know very little about how sea spiders ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Texas-sized tract of single-celled clones

A Rice University study of microbes from a Houston-area cow pasture has confirmed once again that everything is bigger in Texas, even the single-celled stuff. The tests revealed the first-ever report of a ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Deep-sea researchers uncover several new species and thousands of fossilized coral samples

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that ...

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created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0