Researchers looked both genes and structural characteristics of the newly discovered sponges. The post Scientists discover 10 ...

Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and the key role they play in sustaining coral reef ecosystems, marine sponges are vastly understudied. Kāne'ohe Bay, where HIMB is ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes ... Many sea sponges, like anemones, use toxins to repel would-be ...

sponges and serpulid tube worms. Sheltering everything from microscopic food to fish for turtles, it was a whole ecosystem in itself.' The giant Turbinaria coral going into Hintze Hall has been in the ...

Coral reefs provide vital habitat for thousands of marine species, and scientists suspect that sponge reefs may do the same. We know so little about the ocean floor, and yet we're only too ready ...

Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and the key role they play in sustaining coral reef ecosystems, marine sponges are vastly understudied. In a succession of breakthrough ...