A study is the first to evaluate substrate recolonization by sponges in the U.S. Virgin Islands after two catastrophic storms using genetic analyses to understand how much clonality verses sexual ...

Australian sea lions wearing video cameras showed scientists a whole new world on the ocean floor. The footage revealed surprisingly diverse habitats like sponge gardens, coral reefs, and kelp reefs.

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

F. J. R. C. Coelho, D. F. R. Cleary, N. C. M. Gomes, A. R. M. Pólonia, Y. M. Huang, L.-L. Liu, N. J. de Voogd https://www.jstor.org/stable/48723473 Copy URL ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Colorful organisms collect on autonomous reef monitoring stuctures (ARMS). Stelletta hokuwanawana is among the 10 species of newly discovered marine sponge. In a succession of breakthrough studies ...

For the study, scuba divers collected small samples of the thin purple morphotype sponges 14 and 22 months after the two Category 5 hurricanes in St. Thomas. Named for its ropy-looking long branches, ...