The species were found exclusively “living in association with deep-sea glass sponges on seamounts in the northwest Pacific,” so far, according to the study. The animals were found at a depth ...

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse ...

Sea sponges, among the oldest creatures in existence ... In the study, researchers observed fish and other animals feeding off of the sponge's recently sneezed-out mucus. "Some organic matter ...

featureless animals covered in hair-like bristles. "We saw no sea floor. We only saw life. There was one sponge on top of the other, and they were huge," Antje Boetius, a deep-sea biologist at the ...

A lot of studies have been conducted on sponge species that live in shallow water, but scientists are intrigued as to the potential of the animals that live in the deep sea. 'We have very few studies ...

These slugs of the sea are soft-bodied. To protect themselves they resort to chemical warfare. Nudibranchs eat sponges and recycle the poisonous chemicals the sponges contain, using them within their ...

The sponge's branching limbs are covered in tiny, barbed hooks, which act like Velcro to capture passing prey, mainly copepods and other small crustaceans ...

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for centuries.