A team from The Nippon Foundation’s Nekton Ocean Census worked with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ship Falkor to reach far beneath Antarctic waters, where they found/discovered and recovered, with the ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

Despite marine sponges being widespread on our planet, their biodiversity and distribution is still poorly known. Even though the Mediterranean Sea is the most explored sea on Earth, a study reveals ...