Description: Sponges might not look like particularly complex animals, but they've had billions of years to evolve their own ...

There aren't many creatures as safe and chill as the humble sea sponge, right? Well, not so fast! It turns out there's a whole family of carnivorous sponges that trap and eat small animals using ...

Wild dolphins use sea sponges as tools to hunt safely, revealing how animal culture survives despite hidden sensory costs.

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical evidence suggested.

Sponges are among earth’s most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

Chemical signatures in ancient rocks point to precursors of squishy sea creatures. After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s ...

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A deep-sea mining test has led to the discovery of numerous new species thriving 4,000 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface, revealing surprising biodiversity. However, the test also highlighted ...

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A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...