They form another, more famous symbiotic alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s ...

Clownfish Make Up for a Lack of Resources for Their Anemone It was previously known that anemones offer fish a safe space, for which they then defend the flower animal accordingly. However, a ...

Seeing clownfish darting among the tentacled folds of an anemone is like watching butterflies flitting around a flowering plant in a breeze-blown meadow—mesmerizing. Twenty-nine species of ...

As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the mother is eaten ...