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 measure ...

It might be hard for stationary sea creatures to defend themselves, but at least one kind of sea sponge can deploy a chemical shield. Researchers at the University of Delaware found that the ...

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In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make ...

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Researchers from the SponGES project collected year-round video footage and hydrodynamic data from the mysterious world of a deep-sea sponge ground in the Arctic. For the first time, researchers from ...

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