Sponges may conjure visions of the soft and squishy, but some of those living deep beneath the sea build complex glass structures that are marvels of engineering. The sponge, from the genus ...

Deep under the sea lies a creature that sort of looks like a ghostly tulip. The glass rope sponge has a cup-shaped, filter-feeding top and a thin anemone-covered stem tethering it to the ground. One ...

It takes an experienced deep-water diver like Hamish Tweed to reach most of the glass sponge reefs. You have to descend more than 60 metres into the depths of B.C.'s Howe Sound where, even in the ...

Quick adaptation In the freezing waters around Antarctica, pale sponges made of glass have spread rapidly across the seafloor as surface ice disappeared, German and Swedish researchers report. Glass ...

The genome of a glass sponge species suggests that silica skeletons evolved independently in several groups of sponges. Researchers led by geobiologist Professor Gert Wörheide have decoded the genome ...

Warming ocean temperatures and acidification drastically reduce the skeletal strength and filter-feeding capacity of glass sponges, according to new research. The findings indicate that ongoing ...

A new paper finds a glass sponge has the power to eliminate destructive vortices that are created when fluid moves around a blunt object. By Sabrina Imbler At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, ...

A new study has found that warming ocean waters and increased acidification could weaken the skeletal structure of Canada’s iconic glass sponge reefs. The potential loss of glass sponge reefs, which ...

The genome of a glass sponge species suggests that silica skeletons evolved independently in several groups of sponges. The genome of a glass sponge species suggests that silica skeletons evolved ...