A Partnership Built on Poison The sea anemone is a predator. Its tentacles carry nematocysts, microscopic harpoons that fire venom into anything that brushes against them. Most fish die within seconds ...

The Red Sea, circled by desert landscapes, is home to marine life accustomed to the water's bathtub-like temperatures—often reaching 85 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. But in the past three ...

Fans of Finding Nemo will love the crystal-clear underwater footage in a YouTube clip captured at Anilao in the Philippines. It provides a close-up view of two clownfish tending to their batch of eggs ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea ...

Despite having intermediate muscle mass and energy costs, this species rarely strays far from its host. Photo taken in Okinawa, Japan. An international study challenges the widely held belief that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study, drawing on nighttime underwater photography, documented previously unknown “symbiotic associations” between juvenile fish and larval ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up portrait of Cute looking little juvenile tomato Anemonefish (Clownfish) (Amphiprion frenatus)in anemone on a coral reef ...

Many people tend to think of clownfish, with their distinctive white bars against an orange, red, or black background, as a friendly sort of fish, perhaps influenced to some extent by the popular ...