The polypoid stage is present as a tiny solitary polyp which feeds on protozoan and other small plants and animals.

Beginning life as a tiny polyp, attached to vegetation, they feed and reproduce sexually in the spring and summer.

In the second stage, the tiny polyps asexually produce jellyfish, each of which is also known as a medusa.

These tiny polyps may look like anemones, but they are actually baby common jellyfish.

It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue.

Octocorals are colonial organisms, with numerous tiny polyps embedded in a soft matrix that forms the visible structure of the colony.

Individual tiny polyps form colonies that are normally erect, flattened, branching, and reminiscent of a fan.

The branched stems are formed by tiny polyps called zooids.

Millions of tiny polyps have emerged from their limestone cells to stretch out their minuscule arms and grope for food.