I worked hard to make sure the post was longer than this image. Within the glass sponges (Hexactinellids), so called because of scaffolds of silica spicules they form, resides a family of sponges, the ...

The clever design underlying the remarkable strength of a sea sponge’s anchoring fibres has been unravelled by scientists in the US. The team found that the strength of a fibre comes from the ...

The phylum Porifera (sponges; “pore bearing) is divided into three classes, Hexactinellida, Demospongiae, and Calcarea. Calcarea is the oddball of the group, building skeletal elements out of calcium ...

The Venus' flower basket sea sponge has hair-like appendages that hold it in place on the sea floor. Researchers show that the internal structure of those fibers is fine-tuned for strength. The ...

A new study suggests that sea sponges are moving across the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean, which challenges the idea that these creatures are primarily immobile. Previous research has shown that ...

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THE spicule-less sponge, Oscarella lobularis, is an interesting form found on our shores and elsewhere, and presents a wide range of colour variation. Topsent (Arch. de Zool. Exp. et Gén. 3, iii., ...