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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fibre-optic cables may be an amazing invention showing how clever people can be but it turns out nature got there first. US researchers say a deep-sea sponge with a "skeleton" made out of silica did ...

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, Hindu ...

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 ...