Picture is copyright Emily S. Damstra and used by permission. Müller and colleagues carefully studied the formation of these giganto-spicules and found formation was helped along the way by silicatein ...

I worked hard to make sure the post was longer than this image. Within the glass sponges (Hexactinellids), so called because of scaffolds of silica spicules they form, resides a family of sponges, the ...

April 26 (UPI) --New research suggests ocean sponges aren't as sedentary as once thought. Recent surveys of the Arctic seabed revealed trails of light brown sponge spicules, needle-like support ...

PROF. DENDY'S memoir (in Acta Zoologica, 1921, pp. 95-152, 50 figures) on the evolution of the tetraxonid sponge-spicule will appeal equally to those interested in problems of evolution or in ...

With their rigid structures and lack of appendages, sponges can seem more like plants or fungi than the animals that they are. Long assumed to be basically immobile, sponges have been spotted leaving ...

A new glass sponge species is so strange that has been given the name named Advhena magnifica, which means "magnificent alien ...

As a heavy rod of glass sinks into a searing furnace, a wheel below it whirs. Every second that the drum turns, it pulls almost another meter of glass fiber off the softened end of the translucent ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Germany have created a new synthetic hybrid material with a mineral ...

Evidence from biomarkers and molecular clocks points to the existence of sponges tens of millions of years before their earliest fossil remains. Fossils from South Australia may narrow that gap.

Viewers of “SpongeBob Squarepants” have been woefully misinformed about the reality of being a sponges. Far from being yellow, rectangular and hyperactive, sponges come in all shapes, sizes and colors ...

Something with no legs, no feet and no skeleton is crawling around down there, scientists say. By Marion Renault Deep-sea sponges are not known for their mobility. After all, they lack muscles, ...