A team of engineers from RMIT’s Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials utilized biomimicry to develop a super-strong lattice structure that provides enhanced performance compared to ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 ...

Eunice siphoninsidiator, or the tube ambushing marine bristle worm, was discovered within the structure of glass sponges by a ...

Glass sponges are usually somewhere on the color spectrum from orange to white. Their structure depends on the constant pressure provided by their deep-sea environment. Their spicules make up a mostly ...

It's a living sponge. Specifically, E. aspergillum, known familiarly as the Venus flower, a deepwater sea sponge that normally lives at depths of 3,000 feet. The scientists figured out that these sea ...

When marine scientists in Thailand found a colony of a species of sea sponges thought to be extinct, they were disappointed to see many of them were tangled in fishing gear that had been discarded ...

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.

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.

Colorful organisms collect on autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS). Stelletta hokuwanawana is among the 10 species of newly discovered marine sponge. Credit: Rachel Nunley, Kaloko-Honokōhau ...