The orange keyhole sponge, or Mycale grandis, crowds coral on the reef in Kaneohe Bay. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Limnology and Oceanography Vol. 61, No. 4, 2016 Selective feeding by the giant barrel sp ...

Researchers from UH Manoa released a study of the Indo-Australian sponge, an invasive species that has been documented in Hawaii’s coral reefs since the late 1990’s. The study found that the sponges ...

Research revealed a unique feeding strategy of a marine sponge, wherein the sponge animal acquires important components of its diet from symbiotic bacteria living within the sponge. Research conducted ...

A sponge stands tall on a reef off Palau. Sponges don’t have many kinds of cells, but the ones they do have are a model of teamwork. Besides skeletal cells, feeding cells and pumping cells, unemployed ...

In the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, a feast of the dead is under way. A vast community of sponges, the densest group of these animals found in the Arctic, is consuming the remains of an ...

Examples from both marine and terrestrial systems have supported the hypothesis that predation is higher in tropical than in temperate habitats and that, as a consequence, tropical species have ...