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Barn Owl

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Léo-Paul Robert  (Swiss, 1851-1923)

Arachnophobe’s nightmare, N/D

‘Printemps’ -  designs for Spring by Alphonse Maria Mucha (Czech, 1860–1939)

Colour lithographs with metallic pigment on card stock.

Sea anemones are a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. There are more than 1,000 species of sea anemones found throughout the world’s oceans, many attached to rocks on the seafloor. Their bodies are composed of an adhesive pedal disk, a cylindrical body, and an array of tentacles. The tentacles are triggered by the slightest touch, firing a harpoon-like filament into their victim and injecting a paralyzing neurotoxin. 

Estefanía Rodríguez, Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is studying the fascinating varieties of anemones and other sea life in Antarctica. In 2014, Dr. Rodríguez discovered a giant anemone-like creature with tentacles reaching more than 6.5 feet long that actually belongs to an entirely new order of animals, demonstrating there is still much to be learned about polar marine life!

See anemones, penguins, and seals in Beneath the Ice, and immersive dome installation now on view in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, running through May 27.