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 ...

The Venus's flower basket sponge could inspire the buildings, bridges and even aircraft of tomorrow, thanks to its performance under pressure and ability to go with the flow—literally. Imagine you're ...

A new study found evidence in timelapse videos that sea sponges — like humans — sneeze to get rid of mucus and other waste . Sea sponges are underwater creatures with canal systems that suck water in, ...

Deep under the sea lies a creature that sort of looks like a ghostly tulip. The glass rope sponge has a cup-shaped, filter-feeding top and a thin anemone-covered stem tethering it to the ground. One ...

Sponges may conjure visions of the soft and squishy, but some of those living deep beneath the sea build complex glass structures that are marvels of engineering. The sponge, from the genus ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have captured footage of deep-sea sponges sneezing. The time-lapse footage managed to capture the very first instance of glass ...

That engineering can learn from sea sponges isn’t as strange as it first seems. The tiny, hair-like appendages, called basalia spicules, that fix the creature to the floor are composed of a form of ...

Shocking images have emerged from New Zealand showing millions of once-velvety brown sea sponges bleached bone white, the worst mass bleaching event of its type ever recorded, marine scientists say.

The next time you spot a sea sponge, say “gesundheit!” Some sponges regularly “sneeze” to clear debris from their porous bodies. It’s “like someone with a runny nose,” says team member Sally Leys, an ...

Did humans come from monkeys? Go around town talking about that, and some people will clap in agreement while others will be completely offended. Certainly, a species as great as humans could not have ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...