Beneath the ocean's surface, simple marine animals called sea sponges grow delicate glass skeletons that are as intricate as they are strong. These natural structures are made of a material called ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

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

A team of scientists from the University of Rochester, along with collaborators from other institutions, has created bioengineered microlenses inspired by the natural properties of sea sponge glass ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...

However, the exact path of evolution remains unclear, and both sponges and comb jellies are still in the running. Comb jelly, invader to the Black Sea. Image via Depositphotos The search for Earth’s ...

Conservation and management of deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems: identification of vulnerable biogenic habitats ... Systematics & evolution: taxonomy, fossil record, molecular phylogenetics, and ...

Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal technology is ramping up, with startups and existing companies racing to develop ...

They then tested the sponge in four different water samples, taken from irrigation water, pond water, lake water and sea water, and found it removed up to 99.9% of microplastics, according to a ...