using bacteria and enzymes from sea sponges to create tiny microlenses that mimic the sea sponge's natural ability to combine strength and lightness. In a paper published in the journal PNAS ...

These drugs have one thing in common: They are derived from a sponge. Yes, a sponge. Or more specifically, a sea sponge. Sea sponges, a kind of aquatic animal found in oceans and some lakes ...

Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

Sea sponges are some of the oldest creatures ... which builds up on their little sponge-y surfaces. When that mucus becomes too much, the sponge tissues contract and push the waste-filled snot ...

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps ... to some of the first multicellular animals: sponges. The sponge has been around for at least 600 million ...

Warming ocean temperatures are affecting sea sponge populations in other parts of New Zealand too, Bell noted. Swathes of dead sea sponges were discovered in the country’s northern coastal areas.

At first glance, the simple sea sponge is no creature of mystery. No brain. No gut. No problem dating it back 700 million years. Yet convincing sponge fossils only go back about 540 million years ...

The next time you spot a sea sponge, say “gesundheit!” Some sponges regularly “sneeze” to clear debris from their porous bodies. It’s “like someone with a runny nose,” says team ...

'Missing' early sea sponges discovered Date: June 5, 2024 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The ...

Adapting to the Abyss: Passive Ventilation in the Deep-Sea Glass Sponge Euplectella aspergillum. Physical Review Letters , 2024; 132 (20) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.208402 Cite This Page : ...