Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

Researchers were not engaged in nautical nonsense when they discovered that a small shark species inhabits the absorbent and porous animals. By Darren Incorvaia John Pogonoski, an ichthyologist in ...

Although cold waters aren't known for their coral reefs, they do contain ecologically important "glass reefs" created by live sponges. Now, scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ...

Bacteria help the sponges digest extinct creatures' remains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On an underwater mountain in the ...

A research team has published a study on the discovery of a new sponge that is abundant in the region, making up nearly 20 per cent of the live sponges in the reefs off the coast of British Columbia.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The history of Tarpon Springs is rooted in immigrants who came to the area at the turn of the century from Greece. George Billiris belongs to one of those families who made ...

The first time I saw a giant, foot-wide sleepy sponge crab while scuba diving, I had no idea what I was looking at. I was just shooting video of a white sponge growing on top of a brown rock back in a ...