The biggest sea sponge on record, estimated to be thousands of years old and bigger than a car, was discovered by a team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare chemical indicator suggests sponges may have arrived as the first animals on Earth. A sterol core is primarily composed of ...

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 this ...

Marin researchers are probing tiny sea sponges harvested over the last 40 years that could offer new treatments for breast ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered significant clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system by studying the genome of a sea sponge, a member of a ...

Ancient cloud sponges were once thought to be extinct, but Ryan Swan from Be Sea Adventure captured them on video and shared the rare footage on his YouTube channel.

Australian sea lions wearing video cameras showed scientists a whole new world on the ocean floor. The footage revealed surprisingly diverse habitats like sponge gardens, coral reefs, and kelp reefs.

This remarkable skyscraper draws inspiration from the most unexpected of sources: sea sponges. The ambitious building will rise to a supertall height and will be topped by a publicly accessible ...