Many Caribbean coral reef sponges make their own food from sunlight, ranking them among the reef's top producers.

In marine environments, sponges tend to eat other organisms to get their nutrients. But a study published in Functional ...

The Venus flower basket sponge, with its delicate glass-like lattice outer skeleton, has long intrigued researchers seeking to explain how this fragile-seeming creature's body can withstand the harsh ...

In the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, a feast of the dead is under way. A vast community of sponges, the densest group of these animals found in the Arctic, is consuming the remains of an ...