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Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal. Ancient lava ...

Much of our recent work has centred around Antirhodos Island, revealing a temple to the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis which ...

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 ...

The ancient Greeks settled on the Aeolian Islands sometime in the Bronze Age where they traded with their neighbors ...

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 ...

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 ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...

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 ...

In 1947, a chance discovery by Bedouin shepherds uncovered a library frozen in time — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts on Earth. But who wrote them? Most scholars point ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...