In a paper for Science Advances, environmental biotechnologists at Wuhan University write that their sponge "can remove 98.0 ...

Beneath the ocean's surface, simple marine animals called sea sponges grow delicate glass skeletons that are as intricate as ...

Longest-living animals have built amazing traits to slow, halt, or even reverse their age. Species like immortal jellyfish ...

Sponges are aquatic animals that live attached to the bottom of the sea and feed on bacteria and other microscopic food by constantly filtering large amounts of seawater. We currently know more ...

Glowing red lobsters, octopus gardens, towering tree-like corals and glass sponges that are thousands of years old make up ...

It can be tricky to see sponges as animals, stationary and plant-like as they are, but they represent some of the ...

There are over 9,000 described species of sponge (Porifera) living in the ocean, from the intertidal zone all the way down to the abyss. These animals have long been providing for their underwater ...

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: This starfish specie uses a nerve ring and radial nerves to manage movement. Interestingly, these ...

The glass fibers form a crown at its base that appear to help anchor the sponge to the ocean floor ... things that are not known to be visual animals yet we're finding these fascinating optical ...