Scientists have solved the mystery of a "golden orb" found thousands of feet underwater by researchers from the National ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

The mystery of the "golden orb," an unidentified object that captured widespread public interest when it was collected during ...

After more than two years of analysis, NOAA and Smithsonian scientists have identified the viral "golden orb." (NOAA ...

Corals have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and the skeletons they build from calcium carbonate are both complex and resistant to damage. Researchers dove deep into how these sea ...

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One major division of the kingdom Animalia is Cnidarians (animals built around a central point) and bilaterians (animals with bilateral symmetry), which includes us humans. A study found that the sea ...

A new study, drawing on nighttime underwater photography, documented previously unknown “symbiotic associations” between juvenile fish and larval anemones, with some fish staying close to the anemones ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

Cnidocytes are known as the “stinging cells” of Cnidarians, consisting of jellyfish, sea anemones and corals. If you have ever been stung by a jellyfish, that was a cnidocyte. All Cnidarians have ...