The species were found exclusively “living in association with deep-sea glass sponges on seamounts in the northwest Pacific,” ...

featureless animals covered in hair-like bristles. "We saw no sea floor. 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 ...

Sea sponges, among the oldest creatures in existence ... In the study, researchers observed fish and other animals feeding off of the sponge's recently sneezed-out mucus. "Some organic matter ...

Meet the longest living animal on Earth, whose lifespan stretches back thousands of years! More ancient than Shakespeare, ...

The sponge's branching limbs are covered in tiny, barbed hooks, which act like Velcro to capture passing prey, mainly copepods and other small crustaceans ...

A large sponge, a cluster of anemones ... flourishing ecosystems supporting an array of animal life, including corals, icefish, giant sea spiders, and octopus. The discovery offers new insights ...

Scientists predict that sponges—among the most basic animals—arose a few hundred million years before the occurrence of the oldest confirmed fossil specimens, which date to about 500 million years ago ...

Hydrodynamic field inside and outside the skeletal structure of the Euplectella aspergillum glass sponge. The field was reconstructed using CINECA super-computers. Kinetic methodologies and ...