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Are sea anemones animals or plants?
Although they look like flowers, and even have a flower's name, sea anemones are animals. They live attached to rocks and catch other small creatures with stinging cells on their tentacles. The mouth is in the centre of the ring of tentacles.
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The sea bed with sea anemones
 
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