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 ...

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 ...

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.

Christopher Mah, a team member on NOAA’s ship Okeanos Explorer, came across a bright yellow sea sponge and pink starfish next to each other on the ocean floor that reminded him of the ...

The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific ... but “this study marks the first documented case of a eunicid inhabiting ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific ... ZooKeys The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are dotted with various types of coral, sponges and plants. Some species are rigid and colorful ...