Deep under the sea lies a creature that sort of looks like a ghostly tulip. The glass rope sponge has a cup-shaped, filter-feeding top and a thin anemone-covered stem tethering it to the ground. One ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The worm builds a thin mucus tube on the lower part of the sponge and presses ...

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 ...

A new paper finds a glass sponge has the power to eliminate destructive vortices that are created when fluid moves around a blunt object. By Sabrina Imbler At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, ...

The ocean is a massive place full of both unexplored areas and fascinating creatures, some of which look like more like they came from outer space rather than the deep blue sea and that’s certainly ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Achoo!

A new study found evidence in timelapse videos that sea sponges — like humans — sneeze to get rid of mucus and other waste . Sea sponges are underwater creatures with canal systems that suck water in, ...

The natural world is a huge source of life-saving drugs, with plants and animals providing us with all kinds of therapeutic compounds throughout human history. That extends to the sponges that inhabit ...