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Wallpaper Wednesdays: Amazing Anemones
Anemones may look like plants, but they're actually carnivorous animals related to corals and jellyfish.
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Freshen up your home screen with our one-of-a-kind wallpaper featuring a close-up of a fish-eating anemone's tentacles!
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Although sea anemones are attached to the sea floor, they're voracious predators. Their tentacles are covered in thousands of stinging cells called nematocysts, able to pierce and poison prey that comes too close.