Sponges: look for pores, spicules, internal cavity (spongocoel), osculum (not all features are visible in each specimen) 1. Modern desmosponge ... with its tentacles rising above the top of the ...

Video shows the dynamic spicule-by-spicule building up of a sponge skeleton. This is a Z-projected movie taken from the side of a sponge (Ephydatia fluviatilis) hatching from a gemmule.

The Venus’s-flower-basket is a sea sponge found at depths of 100 to 1,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines. A new study shows how the creature’s porous, glassy skeleton alters ...

Humans are by no means alone in the search for more sustainable materials. Nature, too, has been "working" on the problem of sustainability, and it's been at it for a great deal longer. Researchers at ...

Glass sponges -- as the name suggests -- have a glass-based skeleton composed of a network of glass needles, hooks, stars, and spheres. To achieve such a unique architecture they have to ...

For the strongest glass you can imagine, look for sponges at the bottom of the ocean. If you find cartoon superstar SpongeBob Square Pants, keep looking; he’s a bath sponge with a soft skeleton ...

image: Skeleton of a Glass Sponge view more . Credit: Ronald Seidel/Igor Zlotnikov. Glass sponges - as the name suggests - have a glass-based skeleton composed of a network of glass needles, hooks ...

The oldest animal with a skeleton has been discovered, a creature shaped like a thimble that lived on the seafloor more than a half-billion years ago, researchers say. IE 11 is not supported.

In 1841, the English biologist Richard Owen marveled at the intricate skeleton of a new sea sponge species found near the Philippines. It resembled “a delicate cornucopia,” he wrote, one woven from ...

Sponges sipped dissolved organic matter and turned it into tissue. ... Here, C. orientalis approaches coral from below, slowly dissolving the reef’s skeleton and building its own around it.