A team from The Nippon Foundation’s Nekton Ocean Census worked with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship Falkor to reach far beneath Antarctic waters, where they found/discovered and recovered, with the ...

A newly discovered predatory “death-ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean hunts small prey with tiny hooks, revealing surprising ...

Deep in the blue sea, about 200 miles from New York City, marine researchers spotted a squarish, bright yellow sea sponge next to a pink sea star – and they sure look like SpongeBob SquarePants and ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Learn more about the most exciting species found around the world in 2025, from the deep sea to the western Himalayas.

In a hilarious coincidence, a sea star and a sea sponge resembling Patrick and SpongeBob were found! Read here to learn more.

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

Biological systems are renowned for their ability to create strong yet resilient structures. A sea sponge, for instance, grows in layers, forming unique patterns that integrate minerals with softer ...

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 ...

If temperature-tracking sea sponges are to be trusted, climate change has progressed much further than scientists have estimated. A new study that uses ocean organisms called sclerosponges to measure ...

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 ...