Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

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Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they ...

To start a kelp-based grooming session, an orca places the bull kelp stipe on its face and nuzzles against another killer ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

Deep-sea sponges have a secret: their light lattice-like forms are astonishingly stiff and strong. Inspired by these creatures, RMIT researchers have developed a new structure to make ...

Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge nurseries which act as the forests of the sea.

The researchers found that both sea sponge and algae species have the right number of copies of SMT to produce 24-IPC, and by analysing these genes and producing evolutionary trees based on the ...

Belinda the sea sponge may appear inactive when you watch it in real-time. But four years of time-lapse footage shows it has a busy life, indeed. (Ocean Networks Canada) ...

Adapting to the Abyss: Passive Ventilation in the Deep-Sea Glass Sponge Euplectella aspergillum. Physical Review Letters, 2024; 132 (20) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.208402 ...

Sea sponges lead scientists to believe Earth surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming The sea sponge, called sclerosponge, is a long-lived species that records chemical changes in its calcium ...

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 ...