Mild winter weather creates ideal conditions for these jelly-like creatures that travel by wind and wash ashore in spring.

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 ...

Although the species can be a variety of colors, the ones located in New Jersey have a blue ring at their bottom ... First record of the sea anemone Actinia equina (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) on the ...

Thousands of electric blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures washed up on Central Coast beaches this week. Known by the nickname ...

In this last one a small white sea-anemone occurs abundantly in the fine bottom mud: more than a hundred specimens were obtained during one visit in November. The anemone appears to be ...

Relatives of the sea anemone include coral and jellyfish. Like jellyfish, the sea anemone has stinging cells on its tentacles. This is how the sea anemone catches its prey and defends itself from ...