The sea sponge is called Theonella conica ... When the concentration of molybdenum is higher than its solubility in water, ...

Girolline, a compound extracted from the sea sponge Pseudaxinyssa cantharella, has been investigated for possible antitumor effects and also found to have anti-malarial effects. Now, researchers have ...

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.

Sponges feed by filtering bacteria and particles out of sea water in quantities that can reach 1,000 times their volume every hour. When the researchers observed Belinda, they found the sponge ...

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

A handful of centuries-old sponges from deep in the Caribbean Sea could hold clues about the ... lived sponges - simple animals that filter water - for growth records that document changes in ...

The findings are stark: the record revealed that the Earth has already surpassed the internationally agreed-upon limit of ...

A sponge population can pump something like 1,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water in just one day. 'They also recycle a lot of organic material, so they're really important for the carbon ...

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 ...