Mistaken Identity: 'Sea Anemone' Is Actually New Type of Animal

Friday, May 16, 2014 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

A newly reformed "tree of life" for anemones revealed an errant branch: It turns out that one of the creatures classified as an anemone is actually the first discovered in a new order of animals, the equivalent of the first member of primates.

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