Researchers were not engaged in nautical nonsense when they discovered that a small shark species inhabits the absorbent and porous animals. By Darren Incorvaia John Pogonoski, an ichthyologist in ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Although cold waters aren't known for their coral reefs, they do contain ecologically important "glass reefs" created by live sponges. Now, scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ...

A team from The Nippon Foundation’s Nekton Ocean Census worked with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship Falkor to reach far beneath Antarctic waters, where they found/discovered and recovered, with the ...

Bacteria help the sponges digest extinct creatures' remains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On an underwater mountain in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You may owe your life to the lowly sea sponge. Flourishing in extreme, deep-ocean environments ...

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A research team has published a study on the discovery of a new sponge that is abundant in the region, making up nearly 20 per cent of the live sponges in the reefs off the coast of British Columbia.

The first time I saw a giant, foot-wide sleepy sponge crab while scuba diving, I had no idea what I was looking at. I was just shooting video of a white sponge growing on top of a brown rock back in a ...