The sea sponge is called Theonella conica ... This discovery suggests that T. conica uses the metal as a defense mechanism to ward off predators. "Twenty to thirty years ago, researchers from ...

These related sponges, found in the deep sea, are covered in barbed, Velcro-like hooks, which they use to ensnare tiny crustaceans that are swept into them by ocean currents. The sponges then ...

Soft, porous sea sponges were traditionally used for cleaning (as well as padding and contraception), but today, the most common type of dish sponge is made from cellulose, which is derived from ...

Researchers knew that sponges used contractions dubbed “sneezing ... this sponge takes between 20 and 50 minutes to complete a sneeze. Other sea critters feast on these ocean boogers, like ...

Sea sponges are some of the oldest creatures out ... tiny pores that suck in stuff from the water around them, which they use as food and nutrients. But just like when you get a whiff of stinky ...

When Meyer learned about the enzymes that sea sponges use to make their glass skeletons—and that the glass structures had excellent optical properties—"it seemed like a perfect basis for a ...

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 ...

Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

Sea sponges are underwater creatures with canal ... The sponge expels particulate matter through the same pores that it uses to suck in seawater. These particles become “embedded in a stream ...