Sponges don't have muscle fibres, but instead use biochemical pumps to squeeze or expand their skin. All sea sponges, Leys says, do this. But Belinda, it turns out, sneezes all day, every day, all ...

Sea sponges, a kind of aquatic animal found in oceans and some lakes, may look blobbish. They may live in the shadows of more picturesque corals and fish.

Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers have found after studying sea sponges in the Caribbean.

The sea sponge is called Theonella conica, and like all other sponges, it filters the seawater around them to absorb the ...

SpongeBob SquarePants would, in theory, have little use for stamps. They would get soggy in that pineapple under the sea.

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps feed other marine organisms. ... sponges. The sponge has been around for at least 600 million years.

'Missing' early sea sponges discovered Date: June 5, 2024 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record.

Growing sea sponges is also a lengthy process, however. Farmers must wait a full year for the sponges to grow to maturity and are very reliant on the availability of natural seeds.

If temperature-tracking sea sponges are to be trusted, climate change has progressed much further than scientists have estimated. A new study that uses ocean organisms called sclerosponges to ...

The first animal to appear on Earth was probably the humble sea sponge, American scientists believe. According to researchers at the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), sea ...

Sea sponges are some of the oldest creatures out there, with a fossil record dating back approximately 600 million years to the earliest (Precambrian) period of Earth’s history.