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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

How can ship anchors affect Antarctic ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Conservation Science ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...