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 Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius ...

Scientists studying centuries-old sclerosponges from the Caribbean also say industrial warming began in the mid-1860s, more ...

The Venus flower basket sponge, with its delicate glass-like lattice outer skeleton, has long intrigued researchers seeking to explain how this fragile-seeming creature's body can withstand the harsh ...

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, ...

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 ...

If temperature-tracking sea sponges are to be trusted, climate change has progressed much further than scientists have estimated. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for ...

When picturing the earliest animals on Earth, most people imagine ancient fish or tiny marine creatures drifting through prehistoric seas. But new research has revealed a far more humble origin story ...

Many Caribbean coral reef sponges make their own food from sunlight, ranking them among the reef's top producers.

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 ...

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 ...