In a remarkable experiment, scientists have introduced sea sponges into a polluted marina in Spain to investigate their ...

Scientists transplanted 42 sea sponges into a polluted marina in Spain. One species achieved a 91.7% survival rate over 455 ...

Meet the chicken kidney sponge, a true ecosystem engineer that could use its filter-feeding power to clean the degraded ...

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, ...

A deep-sea expedition uncovered a number of strange species, including a strange sponge that isn't quite the passive ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare chemical indicator suggests sponges may have arrived as the first animals on Earth. A sterol core is primarily composed of ...

Deep under the sea lies a creature that sort of looks like a ghostly tulip. The glass rope sponge has a cup-shaped, filter-feeding top and a thin anemone-covered stem tethering it to the ground. One ...

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 ...

About 500 metres below the surface, fragile glass sponges have survived for years while illustrating an engineering challenge ...

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 ...