Combing through coffee table books on sea life, his eye landed ... face paint on a circus clown. Seeing clownfish darting among the tentacled folds of an anemone is like watching butterflies ...

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee ... They form another, more famous symbiotic alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of ... species have evolved similar adaptations for achieving symbiosis with ...

The Disney movie "Finding Nemo" left out a few fascinating details about clownfish. As North Carolina State fish biologist Patrick Cooney wrote on his blog The Fisheries: Father and mother ...

T he symbiosis between clownfish and sea anemones is one of the best-known examples of a marine community. Until now, it was known that the anemones offered the fish protection and that the fish ...

Sea anemones are fearsome predators that stun their prey—mostly small fish and crustaceans—with a powerful neurotoxin. For clownfish, however, the anemones are home. Clownfish have a thick layer of ...

The beloved Disney movie "Finding Nemo" got one not-so-minor detail about clownfish completely wrong. Father and mother clownfish are tending to their clutch of eggs at their sea anemone when the ...