It can be a brutal world out there, and the vulnerable sometimes have to turn to creative solutions to ensure their survival. Scientists studying the accumulation of pollutants in the sponge's body ...

Scientists found a freckled sea creature with “canine-like” teeth on giant barrel sponges in Indonesia and discovered a new species. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In the crystalline waters off ...

Scientists found a “flower”-like sea creature with 22 tentacles and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, a submersible ...

Hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, a submersible robot explored an underwater mountain off the coast of Japan. A “flower”-like sea creature caught the attention of scientists watching ...

Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and collaborators reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil, filling in a gap in the evolutionary family tree of one of the earliest animals. Photo by ...