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Apr. 26, 2021 —A team around deep-sea scientist has now discovered that sponges leave trails on the sea floor in the Arctic deep ...
Aug. 10, 2022 —Sneezing out mucus may be one of the oldest ways for organisms to get rid of unwanted waste. A group of researchers found that sponges, one of the oldest multicellular organisms in existence, ...
June 22, 2023 —The genome of a glass sponge species suggests that silica skeletons evolved independently in several groups of ...
Oct. 23, 2020 —Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter -- but they can also ingest microscopic fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as ...
Nov. 24, 2020 —研究人员开始着手一个水下年代之旅olve a mystery: Why did sponges of the Agelas oroides species, which used to be common in the shallow waters along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, ...
June 29, 2023 —Researchers demonstrate that sponges react to changes in their microbiome with extensive modifications in gene ...
June 10, 2021 —Deep down in the ocean, valuable raw materials are stored, such as nodules of manganese. These resources could help meeting our increasing demand for rare metals. In addition to the nodules, there is ...
Nov. 16, 2022 —The nearshore rocky reefs of the Santa Barbara Channel are dynamic places, with populations of fish, mollusks, algae and other assorted sea life shifting in response to currents, storms and a variety ...
May 17, 2021 —The ocean is a big place with many deep, dark mysteries. Humans have mapped no more than 20% of the sea, and explored less. Even the kelp forests of Southern California -- among the best studied ...
Feb. 8, 2022 —Massive sponge gardens thrive on top of seamounts in the Central Arctic Ocean, one of the most oligotrophic seas on Earth. They appear to feed on the remnants of an extinct fauna. Microorganisms ...