Aquanautix is a PhD marine biologist interested in deep-sea exploration, science, education, and policy. For more posts like these see the new Aquanautix Blog, online since August 2010. Biomaterial ...
Deep under the sea lies a creature that sort of looks like a ghostly tulip. The glass rope sponge has a cup-shaped, filter-feeding top and a thin anemone-covered stem tethering it to the ground. One ...
New time-lapse footage reveals the secret behaviors of creatures that inhabit the deep sea. Scientists captured a glass sponge sneeze, which expands and contracts a white-glass shaped feature at the ...
The amount of surface area often plays an important role in materials used in medicine and technology and normally, it should be as large as possible. It can accommodate, for instance, large ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: The LA County Museum is where I met two marine biologists who study glass sponges, and ...
Hailing from Yorkshire, U.K., Abi Hayward is a UBC School of Journalism intern at the Tyee. After shifting from zoology to journalism, Abi now explores the interface between science and society.
Glass sponges are taking over a newly sunlit strip of Antarctic marine real estate at a blistering clip, surprising biologists who had no idea they had it in them. Glass sponges are taking over a ...
When most people think about organisms growing on the seafloor around Antarctica (if they think of them at all), a few short words come to mind: cold, slow, and dull. But under the right conditions, ...
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