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

A “flower”-like sea creature caught the attention of scientists ... researchers noticed some unfamiliar-looking zoantharians living on a sea sponge, the study said. Intrigued, they collected ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Sea sponges, among the oldest creatures in existence, let out what looks like a deep sea "sneeze" to filter out waste ...

Boetius and her colleagues could see the tracks where the creatures had crawled uphill. But one question remained: What were the sponges eating? On many deep-sea mountains, ocean currents carry ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are ... The discovery marks the first documented case of a eunicid inhabiting deep-sea sponges. | Published March 7 | Read More | The head of an ...

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 ...

A marine creature that resembles the alien E.T. has been found growing in a prehistoric area of eastern Pacific seafloor rock. The “E.T. sponge” has been classified as a new species and genus ...

But the sea sponges we're talking about are actually living creatures. There are around 8,500 different species of sponges in the world, which live in our oceans and estuaries and help to keep ...

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse critters on Earth. And so are their superpowers, as marine biologist Drew ...