The orange keyhole sponge, or Mycale grandis, crowds coral on the reef in Kaneohe Bay. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log ...

Research revealed a unique feeding strategy of a marine sponge, wherein the sponge animal acquires important components of its diet from symbiotic bacteria living within the sponge. Research conducted ...

Scientists from Bremerhaven, Bremen and Kiel discovered a surprisingly rich and densely populated ecosystem on the peaks of extinct underwater volcanoes in the Arctic deep sea. These were dominated by ...

A sponge stands tall on a reef off Palau. Sponges don’t have many kinds of cells, but the ones they do have are a model of teamwork. Besides skeletal cells, feeding cells and pumping cells, unemployed ...

In the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, a feast of the dead is under way. A vast community of sponges, the densest group of these animals found in the Arctic, is consuming the remains of an ...