Researchers identified the new species of marine sponge using a technique that looks at both genes and structural ...
In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...
Scientists often encounter things beyond human comprehension. When studying jellyfish and their remarkable healing abilities, ...
Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, the world's largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of new marine ...
A total of 866 new marine species have been discovered in just 16 months by the Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census as they ...
The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are dotted with various types of coral, sponges and plants. Some species ...
Plankton and bacteria are filtered out of the water for consumption by glass sponges. They don’t have many predators though there are a few starfish species that eat them. Sponges in general are a ...
Scientists found a “slender” creature with “long” toes in a wetland of Taiwan and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Chun-Fu Lin via Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga and ...
When marine scientists in Thailand found a colony of a species of sea sponges thought to be extinct, they were disappointed to see many of them were tangled in fishing gear that had been discarded ...
Colorful organisms collect on autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS). Stelletta hokuwanawana is among the 10 species of newly discovered marine sponge. Credit: Rachel Nunley, Kaloko-Honokōhau ...