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.

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 ...

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.

The sea sponge is called Theonella conica ... When the concentration of molybdenum is higher than its solubility in water, the metal becomes toxic. The researchers believe that the bacteria ...

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 ...

Sea sponges are constantly shedding chemicals into the sea ... But these early devices could only operate in shallow water and would take a relatively long time to process samples. The research team ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

sponge waterfronts, places where water from rising seas is allowed space to flow in and out of areas instead of crashing over sea walls. And falling rain — stormwater — is captured and soaked ...