Corals and Sea Anemones Turn Sunscreen into Toxins—Understanding How Could Help Save Coral Reefs. Researchers have long suspected that an ingredient in sunscreen called oxybenzone was harming corals, ...

A novel in vivo system to study coral biomineralization in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. iScience , 2024; 27 (3): 109131 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109131 Cite This Page : ...

How a sea anemone uses its algal symbionts to assimilate nitrogen in nutrient-poor waters. ... Molecular insights into the Darwin paradox of coral reefs from the sea anemone Aiptasia.

Anemones are closely related to corals and can help scientists understand how coral reef ecosystems are affected by millions of tons of plastic contaminating the world's oceans.

Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their food, ... "We wanted to understand how these long-lived contaminants are affecting fragile coral reef ecosystems.

A new study shows that in Earth's past, warmer acidic oceans have led to the collapse of stony coral reefs, allowing softer corals and sea anemones to take their place.

With coral reefs under attack from ongoing climate change effects, what steps can be taken to reverse the damage? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as a team of ...

An area of biodiversity (including corals, crustaceans, urchins, anemones, and more) on Cacho De Coral, a newly discovered pristine coral reef. Photo: Schmidt Ocean Institute Start Slideshow ...

It’s been just about 20 years since Finding Nemo was released in theaters and the lost “little clownfish from the reef” swam his way into our hearts. However, there is way more to coral reef ...

HAILED as the rainforests of the sea, coral reefs support almost a quarter of all marine species, from turtles and fish – like the clownfish peeking out of its anemone that is seen repeatedly in ...

Corals – like the mushroom coral seen here – and sea anemones absorb oxybenzone and metabolize it, but in doing so, they turn it into a toxin. Christian Renicke , CC BY-ND Metabolism converts ...