Marine life researchers used a non-toxic dye to study how sea sponges helped ocean water clean. Footage shows the green colouring being sucked by the underwater creature into its pores.

This "digital twin" allows experimentation that is impossible on live sponges, which cannot survive outside their deep-sea environment. The team performed highly detailed simulations of water flow ...

A team of international scientists recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the waters of the South Sandwich ...

The next time you spot a sea sponge ... Researchers knew that sponges used contractions dubbed “sneezing” to move water through their bodies in a one-way flow. Typically, water comes in ...

A sponge the size of a milk carton can filter a swimming pool worth of water every day, said Chris Freeman, a marine ecologist at the College of Charleston. They’re basically Britas of the sea.

Sea sponges are underwater creatures with canal systems that suck water in, filter the nutritious substances and send water out, the researchers, led by Niklas Kornder, wrote in a study published ...

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps ... For years, scientists have known that sponges can regulate their water flow with a many-minutes-long body ...

Sea sponges are more resilient to warmer temperatures and filter pollutants such as sewage and pesticides out ofthe water. Local women's rights activists say sea sponge farming is helping to ...

Belinda is a tennis-ball sized sea sponge of the species Suberites concinnus who lives on the sea floor, about 23 metres below the surface of the water, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Some species are rigid and colorful, while others are nearly translucent and flexible in the water currents. Glass sponges are found along the deep sea, providing a hiding place for small critters ...

Sea sponges are some of the oldest creatures out ... They instead have all of these tiny pores that suck in stuff from the water around them, which they use as food and nutrients.