Close-up of a female stolon–one of the independent reproductive units–from the worm Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. It has already ...

Yes, a sponge. Or more specifically, a sea sponge. 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 ...

Humans may count themselves lucky to reach 100, but some creatures have lifespans that make centuries look like a weekend. In ...

Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

Deep, deep in geologic time, some 600 million or 700 million years ago, the very first animals evolved on Earth. Their closest relatives that still live today include sponges, sea anemones and ...

Scientists have long thought the humble sea sponge, an animal that feeds by filtering water through itself, forms the oldest group of animals on earth. But a new study claims that the comb jelly ...

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps feed ... and dates back to some of the first multicellular animals: sponges. The sponge has been around for ...

B eneath the ocean's surface, simple marine animals called sea sponges grow delicate glass skeletons that are as intricate as they are strong. These natural structures are made of a material ...

However, a new study shows how one aquatic animal, in its own little way, sneezes to get rid of junk that clogs up their internal filter system—sea sponges. Sea sponges are some of the oldest ...

At first glance, the simple sea sponge is no creature of mystery ... fills in the evolutionary family tree of one of the earliest animals, explaining its apparent absence in older rocks and ...

Scientists have interpreted Brooksella as various kinds of sea animals ... puffed pastry that is unusual for soft-squishy animals like a sponge," said University of Georgia paleontologist Sally ...