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 ...

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

Microplastics are everywhere. They have been found on the peak of Mount Everest and in creatures inhabiting the deepest ...

Monorhaphis chuni is a deep-sea sponge that creates giant basal spicules (GBS) that can reach up to 3 meters in length and 10 millimeters in diameter. These spicules are the largest biogenic ...

In the crystalline waters off the coast of Indonesia, an “unusual” freckled creature swam near a large sea sponge. Its bright ...

Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years ...

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

Creatures, including black ... scientists is surveying three separate deep sea marine protected areas. The first of the sites is the Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt Nature Conservation Marine Protected ...

Heart cockles have windows in their shells made from natural optical fibers, allowing light through to the algae inside them.

SINGAPORE - An islandwide hunt for a rare giant sea sponge in Singapore waters will ... follows a recent study which found that the marine creature, once thought to be extinct, is at risk of ...

SMARTEX Project/ NERC These weird and wonderful creatures include worms, corals and sea cucumbers known as ... found species like this carnivorous sponge. It’s like a box being dragged across ...