The next time you spot a sea sponge ... Researchers knew that sponges used contractions dubbed “sneezing” to move water through their bodies in a one-way flow. Typically, water comes in ...

A sponge the size of a milk carton can filter a swimming pool worth of water every day, said Chris Freeman, a marine ecologist at the College of Charleston. They’re basically Britas of the sea.

Researchers have determined that sea sponges, multicellular organisms that ... Sponges are filter feeders that pump water through their bodies to sift out organic matter. The water travels in ...

Sea sponges are some of the oldest creatures out ... They instead have all of these tiny pores that suck in stuff from the water around them, which they use as food and nutrients.

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps ... For years, scientists have known that sponges can regulate their water flow with a many-minutes-long body ...

Belinda is a tennis-ball sized sea sponge of the species Suberites concinnus who lives on the sea floor, about 23 metres below the surface of the water, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Sponges feed by filtering bacteria and particles out of sea water in quantities that can reach 1,000 times their volume every hour. When the researchers observed Belinda, they found the sponge ...

Sea sponges are more resilient to warmer temperatures and filter pollutants such as sewage and pesticides out ofthe water. Local women's rights activists say sea sponge farming is helping to ...

Natural sea sponges “grow on the ocean floor and are ... “The microwave heats the water inside the sponge and brings it to a boiling point, which kills the bacteria inside,” Reichert says.

A man refreshes his face with water from a public fountain in Paris ... according to the study. The sea sponges revealed that warming related to human activity commenced from the mid-1860s ...