Some zoantharians, such as the new species, live in symbiotic relationships with large sea sponges. A photo shows several small flower zoantharians, which look like yellow blobs, on a sea sponge.

The sea sponge is called Theonella conica ... Symbionts are organisms that live together in a larger organism called a host, ...

You can pick up a synthetic sponge for just a few dollars. But a natural sea sponge, hand-harvested from the Mediterranean seafloor, could set you back $30. Harvesting these sponges is dangerous ...

"A sponge’s skeletal type adapts well to its particular habitat, allowing it to live on hard ... Fluctuations of the sea level associated with the last glacial maximum (LGM -18,000-22,000 ...

Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

Girolline, a compound extracted from the sea sponge Pseudaxinyssa cantharella, has been investigated for possible antitumor effects and also found to have anti-malarial effects. Now, researchers have ...

A sea sponge observed off the coast of Vancouver ... The researchers found the creature’s ability to bounce back — and potentially live more than 100 years old — demonstrates just how ...

Ana explains, 'There is a sponge that allows a polychaete to live in a furrow that it creates ... There are other species of deep-sea sponge that are known to engage in symbiotic relationships with ...

And because of sea ... can live in as they do in natural craggy rock formations. Day two of his visit featured a talk at Boston's Museum of Science. He spoke about how inexpensive sponge cities ...