have uncovered 10 new species of marine sponges in Kaneohe Bay. Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, ...

Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and the key role they play in sustaining coral reef ecosystems, marine sponges are vastly understudied. Kāne'ohe Bay, where HIMB is ...

Ten new species of sponge have been discovered off Hawaii. Researchers identified the new species of marine sponge using a technique that looks at both genes and structural characteristics.

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

For one newly discovered species, glass sponges provide both a home and a hunting ground. Eunice siphoninsidiator, or the tube ambushing marine bristle worm, was discovered within the structure of ...

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Sponges can grow very slowly ... like lifting the world’s biggest rock to see what critters lay underneath. Marine biology is known to be highly adaptive and extremely resilient.

We only saw life. There was one sponge on top of the other, and they were huge," Antje Boetius, a deep-sea biologist at the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, who led the research ...

We use marine and freshwater sponges as model systems to ask questions about the genetics and development of animal evolution and symbioses. Sponges are ancient animals that retain characteristics of ...

International scientists have uncovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge, dating back approximately 480 million years to the Early Ordovician, in South China. Stromatoporoid sponges ...