A species of sea sponge found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean has evolved to have a creative survival strategy. ... In other organisms, such levels of the mineral would be fatal.

A team of researchers has published a draft genome sequence of the sea sponge, an organism that wasn't recognized as an animal until the 19th century. The genome gives insight into the origins of ...

The sponge has been around for at least 600 million years. “It’s the most successful animal that I know of, because it’s so old, and it’s everywhere,” said Jasper de Goeij, a marine ...

Sponge full of cholesterol pushes ... of researchers led by MIT’s David Gold took a closer look at the sterol 24-isopropylcholesterol in sponges and other organisms to find out more about when ...

These long spicules form the base of sponge putting the business end way up off the bottom to feed. Indeed lots of organism in the deep oceans are stalked or climb atop other stalked organisms to feed ...

A team of researchers led by UC Berkeley's Daniel Rokhsar has published a draft genome sequence of the sea sponge, an organism that wasn't recognized as an animal until the 19th century. The ...

Four scientists from UC Santa Barbara contributed to the sequencing of the genome of a Great Barrier Reef marine sponge, from a 650 million-year-old group of organisms –– a project that ...

That this deep-ocean sponge doesn't appear to have been disturbed may have allowed it to become so large. “A lot of organisms in deep seas grow very slowly, so they need their habitats to remain ...

A sponge’s structure of multiple chambers and wells creates the perfect home for various types of bacteria to ... like the smaller pores of a sponge, won’t “bully” other organisms for room ...

Bacteria that thrive in secluded spaces, like the smaller pores of a sponge, won’t “bully” other organisms for room, while the sponge’s bigger wells allow for microbes that depend on the ...