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 ...

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.

Simulations show that a deep-sea glass sponge’s intricate skeleton creates particle-trapping vortices and reduces the stress of rushing water.

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 ...

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 ...

video: 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 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.

Sponges build their skeletons using specialized cells that transport and assemble structural beams like construction workers — a novel way of producing a skeleton compared to other animals ...

When scientists first discovered glass sponge reefs in British Columbia’s waters in the late 1980s, they couldn’t have been more surprised. Prior to this, they believed that glass sponge reefs ...

Researchers have deciphered the structure of a marine sponge skeleton and developed a novel three-dimensional composite material for the modern materials industry.