It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or ...

Scientists already knew that the pair of shallow coastal ocean dwellers keep very different schedules of downtime: The ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

With increased DNA damage from UV radiation or other reasons, the researchers also observed the jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

Lurking in the deep sea is a marine creature thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones. But the animal, which has tentacles measuring more than 6 feet long, isn't an anemone but rather the ...

Evolutionary and developmental biologists have discovered that sea anemones display a genomic landscape with a complexity of regulatory elements similar to that of fruit flies or other animal model ...

They’re the first animals known to turn food into extra limbs. By Cara Giaimo People have a lot of strategies for dealing with the effects of large meals — constitutionals, antacids, workouts, naps.

Starlet anemone grow tentacle arms based on how much food they intake. Courtesy of Anniek Stokkermans/European Molecular Biology Lab Heidelberg To many humans, the popular proverb “you are what you ...