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On a strip of calm blue water in the Costa Brava, a fisherman pulls a fluorescent orange stick from the sea. We are in a boat ...

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

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Nature doesn’t just surprise us; it prototypes ideas we’d swear came from a movie. Some animal skills look like planned ...