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Stichodactyla helianthus, commonly known as sun anemone, is a sea anemone of the family Stichodactylidae. Helianthus stems from the Greek words ἡλιος (meaning sun), and ἀνθος, meaning flower. S. helianthus is a large, green, sessile, carpet-like sea anemone, from the Caribbean. It lives in shallow areas with mild to strong currents.
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents, which denote hypothetical inhabitants of these bodies.
"A 'sea pickle'? An animal that can grow to 60 feet long is washing up on the Oregon coast". USA Today. Huge pyrosome captured in the North Atlantic - story and images; Images taken by divers off southern California; The Bioluminescence Web Page; Divers with huge southern hemisphere pyrosomes; Millions of tropical sea creatures invade waters ...
怪 (guài) means strange or unusual when used as an adjective, and any monster or strange and unusual creature as a standalone noun. [ 25 ] [ 28 ] While both of the words 妖 and 怪 signify and connote strangeness, but 妖 carries the additional connotation of seduction or supernatural enthrallment, whereas 怪 signifies a strange monster.
As is well known, atmospheric ducting is the explanation for certain optical mirages, and in particular the arctic illusion called "fata morgana" where distant ocean or surface ice, which is essentially flat, appears to the viewer in the form of vertical columns and spires, or "castles in the air". People often assume that mirages occur only ...
Scaly creature — so tiny it’s hard to catch — is found on ocean floor. See new species ‘Electric-blue’ creature with 8 eyes found lurking in Thailand tree.
Sun bears, which call the tropical forests of Southeast Asia home, are the smallest known animals in the bear family. Images and videos of an unusual looking sun bear in Malaysia have gone viral ...
The common sunstar is distributed from the Arctic down to the English Channel, in the North Sea, also on both East (from the Arctic to the Gulf of Maine) and Pacific coasts (from Alaska to Puget Sound) of North America. It is also circumboreal, found in Greenland, Iceland, the Barents Sea, Kola Bay, Okhotsk Sea and the White Sea.