Photo of the Day 315

Sea Anemone Eating Crab, Washington, 1999

Photograph by George Grall

A giant green sea anemone eats a red cancer crab in a tidal pool in Washington's Clallam Bay. These carnivorous invertebrates snare their prey by firing a hooked filament into their victims, paralyzing them with a potent neurotoxin before engulfing the unlucky prey.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Pools of Spring," April 1999, National Geographic magazine)