Stretching for nearly 80 miles across the seafloor of the central Arctic, the Langseth Ridge is craggy, barren, and generally inhospitable. And it should be: Unlike more productive oceans, few ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea sponges on the Gakkel Ridge, deep beneath Arctic sea ice.Alfred-Wegener-Institut / PS101 AWI OFOS system/ Antje Boetius ...

Researchers have discovered a vast garden of giant sponges living close to the North Pole. It might seem like nothing could survive in the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, but these porous ...

In the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, a feast of the dead is under way. A vast community of sponges, the densest group of these animals found in the Arctic, is consuming the remains of an ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.