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With their pointy spines, sea urchins are not warm and fuzzy marine animals that people want to snuggle up to. While they are ...

A bizarre new sponge species has been discovered deep in the Southern Ocean. Unlike ordinary sponges, it does not filter water for tiny food particles. Instead, it actively traps and consumes small ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone. By Elizabeth Preston Like a scarf out of a magician’s sleeve, the squid appeared.

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Far beneath Antarctic waters, scientists have found a killer sea sponge with a near perfect ball shape that grabs and eats passing animals. It is the star of dozens of newly confirmed deep sea species ...

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A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

Most sea sponges are simple, yet ancient, animals that live in coral reef ecosystems. They feed by passively filtering ocean water, taking in microscopic debris such as bacteria, plankton, and other ...

Classification of benthic habitats in the deep sea is instrumental in managing and monitoring marine ecosystems as it provides distinct units for which changes can be quantified over time. These ...