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.

Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Sept. 17 have found that sponges build their ... Video shows the dynamic spicule-by-spicule building up of a sponge skeleton.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Oct 07, 2019: Researchers develop unique material from marine bath sponge skeleton (Nanowerk News) Scientists of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, together with an international research team, have ...