Collections came from shallow underwater caves to deep-sea fishing grounds and underwater mountains (seamounts), descending to depths of up to 1,000 meters. With Docent Paco Cárdenas, sponge ...

Bio-inspired vortex-anchored filter captures more than 97% of floating, underwater and emulsified oils, even under strong ...

The sea sponge is called Theonella conica ... Shoham wanted to look into whether the sponge species in the deep waters of the ...

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures ...

One significant study explored the biodiversity and environmental drivers of deep-sea sponge microbiomes, revealing that these microbial communities are less complex but more heterogeneous than ...

They may look like an alien organism or some kind of giant plant, but sea sponges are part of the animal kingdom. While scientists are still learning more about their life spans, these deep-sea ...

All sea sponges, Leys says, do this ... As the blob passed through, Belinda's colour slowly darkened from a pale yellow to deep orange, and it became lumpy. The sponge also got smaller, and ...

Like Star Wars' villainous Darth Vader, the newly described sea bug is pasty ... the remains of fish, crab, sponges and other organic matter that fall down to the deep seafloor.

A Boston University led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals ...