Alaska deep-sea sponge discovery: NOAA scientists described nine new species -- including one requiring an entirely new genus -- in Gulf of Alaska waters where bottom trawlers have removed 8.8 million ...

• The red beard sponge grows to 9 inches tall and 12 inches in width. It is a brightly colored sponge with thick, intertwining branches. • Its hair-like cilia captures food particles in the water, and ...

Do you know that we have bright-red, underwater volcanoes here in Hawai‘i, and they are very common? They are called the red volcano sponge, and they cover the sea floor on certain reefs, and look ...