SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration ...

Real sea sponges are bit less lively than SpongeBob suggests, rooting themselves in one spot on rocks or the seafloor for most of their lives. Clathria unoriginalis (A): ...

Sea sponges rely on a sneezing mechanism to clear their pores, using mucus to flush out debris. ... In real time, this sponge takes between 20 and 50 minutes to complete a sneeze.

Using my hands to scrub my body in the shower has never felt like enough. I know I’m getting clean, and it’s important not to scrub too hard. But with all the gunk and dirt humans gather just ...

Belinda the sea sponge may appear inactive when you watch it in real-time. But four years of time-lapse footage shows it has a busy life, indeed. (Ocean Networks Canada) ...

Many of the characters in SpongeBob SquarePants, like Kevin Sea Cucumber, are based on real life sea creatures that are on display at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, CA.

Inspired by the humble deep-sea sponge, RMIT University engineers have developed a new material with remarkable compressive strength and stiffness that could improve architectural and product designs.

As ocean temperatures rise, single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar switch from seaweed to sea sponge farming to stay afloat. As a gentle morning breeze blows across the Zanzibar shore ...