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 ...

Actually, it's more like eat and be eaten for most organisms. While plants and some bacteria can make their own food, other organisms must eat living things to survive. This makes them predators.

Our Planet, the incredible new documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, explores the beauty of life on Earth and highlights the threats that we pose to it. In the coastal seas episode, ...

This story appears in the January 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. When Andrew Stanton set out to make an animated children's movie set in the ocean and faithful to "the real rules of ...

Relatives of the sea anemone and every bit as splashy, corals display hues ranging from brilliant orange and deep salmon to pale pink and subtle violet. Often referred to as “rainforests of the sea,” ...

In past bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef, the southern region has sometimes been spared worst of the bleaching. Not this time. This year's intense underwater heat has triggered the most ...