Glass sponges are found along the deep sea, providing a hiding place for small critters along the seafloor. For one newly discovered species, glass sponges provide both a home and a hunting ground.

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Sponges can grow very slowly ... Photograph by ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute Normally, deep-sea ecosystems get their nutrients from the sea surface, which sprinkle down toward the ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...

A large sponge and a group of anemones were recorded ... ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute While most deep-sea ecosystems depend on nutrients that slowly drift down from the surface, these ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang ...

Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...