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

Zoantharians are marine invertebrates related to other better-known cnidarians such as jellyfish, sea anemones and corals.

Certain animals on Earth possess extraordinary lifespans, surviving for hundreds of years and displaying remarkable ...

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

The heart is a vital organ for humans, but some creatures, such as flatworms, jellyfish, sea sponges, starfish, sea urchins, ...

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

With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment ...

From animal journeys across oceans to the discovery of dozens of new species in the deep sea, these stories wowed us ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse, and a"blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024.