SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration ...

Warming ocean temperatures are affecting sea sponge populations in other parts of New Zealand too, Bell noted. Swathes of dead sea sponges were discovered in the country’s northern coastal areas.

Even though the Mediterranean Sea is the most explored sea ... with still many parts of the world unexplored. The sponge fauna of the Western Mediterranean is one of the most studied in the ...

The sea sponge is unassuming ... Xiao's find completes part of the evolutionary story for one of our earliest animals and answers Darwin's questions about the time of sponge evolution.

Now, a closer look into those fine layers of ancient sea sponge show the world may have already hit a crucial climate tipping point and could very well be hurtling towards another by 2030. Research ...

The footage revealed surprisingly diverse habitats like sponge gardens, coral reefs, and kelp reefs. Videos from seals, dolphins, and sea lions can help scientists map uncharted parts of the ocean.

The sponges are from an already recognized group ... they use for armour and even use natural fibres found under the sea as part of their skeleton. Spongia oculata, showing the orifices and ...