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 new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

A newly-discovered carnivorous sea sponge that looks like a perfect sphere—but covered in hooked teeth—is easily the weirdest ...

Sponges are some of the simplest and least dangerous animals on Earth, but a new species seems to be shooting for a cooler ...

If temperature-tracking sea sponges are to be trusted, climate change has progressed much further than scientists have estimated. A new study that uses ocean organisms called sclerosponges to measure ...

Corals and sponges are important foundations in ocean ecosystems providing structure and habitats that shelter a high number of species like fish, crabs and other creatures, particularly in the ...

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