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 a ...

The only sneezes people would expect from a sponge would be on SpongeBob SquarePants. But a new study has found that sea sponges possess the very human-like ability to sneeze. After exposing a sea ...

A sea sponge observed off the coast of Vancouver Island for more than four years was found to both hibernate and “sneeze” in behaviours thought to expel waste and adapt to a changing ocean — useful ...

VANCOUVER — A study into the behaviour of a sea sponge off the coast of British Columbia has revealed the animals have the humanlike ability to sneeze. Researcher Sally Leys said her team examined ...

As climate change deprives the world's oceans of oxygen, new research on B.C. sea sponges offers a glimmer of hope for some marine creatures. Sally Leys, biological sciences professor at the ...

If temperature-tracking sea sponges are to be trusted, climate change has progressed much further than scientists have estimated. A new study that uses ocean organisms called sclerosponges to measure ...

The release of particles as a result of deep-sea mining operations could have severe detrimental effects on deep-sea fauna, new research has found. SMS deposits are large three-dimensional, geological ...

A researcher at the University of Alberta has found that sea sponges may be a way to oxygenate the oceans and keep other water-dwelling species alive. Sea sponges found ways to survive in Earth’s ...

UBC researchers have identified three compounds that prevent COVID-19 infection in human cells, derived from natural sources including a B.C. sea sponge. Dr. François Jean The discovery paves the way ...

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