Researchers have used DNA barcoding to elucidate the diversity of the sponge fauna found in Antarctic waters. The data provide new insights into the evolution of this poorly characterized group.

Local ecologist Steve Lonhart says most scientists are lucky to know maybe one or two people, in their lifetimes, who have named a new species. He knows someone who has described a couple of dozen – a ...

Marine sponges play a critical role in ocean ecosystems as both habitat formers and nutrient cyclers. Their extensive and complex microbiomes, comprising bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms, ...

Ten new species of sponge have been discovered off Hawaii. Researchers identified the new species of marine sponge using a technique that looks at both genes and structural characteristics. They say ...

The most beloved cartoon sponge of a generation spent most of his life in a pineapple under the sea, but he was born in a marine biology institute in Dana Point, Calif., in 1989. He was just Bob the ...

ABSTRACT: We compared the species composition, abundance, and cover of sponges in 2 marine lakes (Kakaban Lake and Haji Buang Lake) and adjacent coastal mangroves on the islands of Kakaban and Maratua ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Mar., 2006), pp. 165-178 (14 pages) Alpheid shrimp represent an abundant and diverse, but poorly characterized, component of the cryptic biodiversity of ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The worm builds a thin mucus tube on the lower part of the sponge and presses ...