The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for ...

Sea sponges are one such creature, and they come in many shapes and sizes. As surprising as it seems, one particular variety of sea sponge, called a glass sponge, shares something in common with ...

All those sea sponges that live in deep oceans have a secret: their light lattice-like forms are astonishingly stiff and strong. Inspired by these fascinating creatures, researchers at Australia's ...

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

Hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, a submersible robot explored an underwater mountain off the coast of Japan. A “flower”-like sea creature caught the attention of scientists watching ...

a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms. Researchers discovered the underwater mountain in 2011, while mapping uncharted Arctic waters ...

The carnivorous harp sponge uses velcro-like hooks on its branching limbs to snare tiny crustaceans, which it then digests ...

Living inside the sponge, the worm is provided with protection from other deep-sea-dwelling predators ... There is a sponge that allows a polychaete to live in a furrow that it creates. This type of ...

The bristle worms live within the tubes of the glass coral ... were found exclusively “living in association with deep-sea glass sponges on seamounts in the northwest Pacific,” so far ...