In the images, he saw what might be sponge reefs. With financing from the UW Oceanography Department and the federally created Washington Sea Grant Program, he set sail in June for a five-day tour ...

Sea sponges, among the oldest creatures in existence ... "Some organic matter exists in the water surrounding the coral reef, but most of it is not concentrated enough for other animals to ...

Researchers have determined that sea sponges, multicellular organisms that ... it also provides food for other ocean animals. Coral reef ecologist Niklas Kornder of the University of Amsterdam ...

Researchers in Hawaii used structures that mimic coral reefs to study aquatic life — and they found four new species. The new species are all types of sponges, “grubby little” creatures that are often ...

Time lapse of an unknown sea sponge Kornder et al ... some of the astonishing diversity we see on these very beautiful reefs, with their very complex ecosystems.” The study raises more questions ...

Sea sponges, a kind of aquatic animal found in ... from rainforests to prairies to coral reefs. “We’re destroying biodiversity as rapidly as we can,” said Eric Schmidt, a professor of ...

Take a sea sponge called Theonella conica ... collected samples of a rare sponge called Theonella conica from the coral reef ...

and the early date for the sponges places them before this life-friendly gas was common throughout the sea. But so-called "oxygen oases" would likely have existed around cyanobacteria reefs ...

Scientists found “massive” plant-covered sea animals at South Pacific reef ... Researchers were surveying reefs near several islands in French Polynesia when they noticed the “uncommon ...

Researchers in Hawaii found four new species of sponge, a sea creature that’s important to coral reef ecosystems. Photos from Jan Vicente, University of Hawaii at Manoa Toonen co-authored a Jan ...