New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Sponges are among the most primitive of all animals. They are immobile, and live by filtering detritus from the water. They have no brains or, for that matter, any neurons, organs or even tissues. If ...

They wash your dishes, your car, even your back. Sponges are a ubiquitous tool of the modern world—and have been since the earliest days of mediterranean culture—but how much do you really know about ...

A group of scientists have discovered 30 previously unknown deep-sea species in one of the most remote parts of the planet - the depths of the Southern Ocean, including volcanic calderas, the South ...