Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that the seemingly ordinary sea sponge contains high amounts of a ...

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This sponge, with its massive silica spicules, can live for an astounding 15,000 years, making it one of Earth's longest-living organisms. Image Credit: Animalia Monorhaphis chuni is a deep-sea ...

Dr. Kim Ritchie, a University of South Carolina-Beaufort professor in the department of natural sciences, said that sea pork, like sponges or coral, are usually attached to hard surfaces ...

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In the wake of news that a New Zealand bottom trawler destroyed coral in the international waters of the South Pacific, ...

Global coral bleaching also took place in 1998 ... about 200 species of sea sponges, and rare and endangered seahorses and clams, among other creatures. Correction note: An earlier version ...