This deep sea animal looks like a plant, but is actually an animal. What is the name of this creature that waits for food to drift into its outstretched poisonous tentacles which then close around the victim until it is digested?

The Venus flytrap sea anemone feeds in a similar way to its on land namesake, even though the sea anemone is an animal, where the Venus flytrap on land is a plant. It faces into the water current and waits for its prey to touch one of its poisonous outstretched tentacles. Once the animal touches the tentacle, the other tentacles close in around the prey where it is digested.

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