Sponges are made of materials that do a great job against stuck-on messes, but they are not environment-friendly. We'll share ...

The research sponge Theonella conica in its natural habitat Red sea (Image via Shani Shoham) With the core drive for survival, a sea sponge called Theonella conica has developed an uncanny mechanism ...

Negotiators at a U.N. conference in Colombia agreed to launch a fund for companies that make money from nature to give a ...

A flower from Madagascar held a secret to halting cancer. A sea sponge in the Caribbean was responsible for the first antiretroviral treatment for HIV. The venom of a lizard found in Mexico and the ...

Israeli conservationists released three hawksbill turtles into the Red Sea in an effort to rehabilitate the population of the ...

Branching Tube Sponge- yellow & purple variation. Image by Nhobgood (talk) Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia ...

Marine organisms are slowly moving into new hexagon-shaped panels in East Boston designed to bring life to a harsh and barren ...

It can be a brutal world out there, and the vulnerable sometimes have to turn to creative solutions to ensure their survival.

The Queensland Museum expert discovered the carnivorous critters while controlling a deep-sea vehicle from his desk.

The strange new carnivorous sea sponges were picked up during a scientific trawling of the ocean floor by a remotely operated ...