A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating glaciers in January, a team of ...

The Antarctic sponge may be the oldest animal on Earth, living up to 15,000 years. In the icy waters of Antarctica, extraordinary sponges might be the oldest organisms on our planet. Their longevity ...

Even if you know instinctively that your kitchen sponge can get pretty nasty, the numbers still might shock you: 54 billion bacteria per cubic centimeter (yes, billion with a B) can be found on a ...

The discovery of a 480-million-year-old sponge in China has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of early reef ecosystems and biomineralization. As published in the journal PNAS, Chinese ...

I found the sponge to be a true standout when it came to daily, weekly and deep-cleaning jobs in the kitchen. It is an ideal cleaning tool for glass stovetops, which can be difficult to keep clean ...

The baking queen claimed that “the secret to a perfect sponge” is to mix in 225g of baking spread that’s “straight from the fridge” on a low setting. When making any type of cake ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young ...

A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed that was very recently covered by the George VI Ice Shelf, a floating glacier in ...

Paleontologists studied 16 specimens of the tiny wasp preserved in amber dating back to the Cretaceous period that was previously unearthed in Myanmar. The previously unknown species, now named ...

Lined with hairy bristles, the lower half of this paddle-shaped structure appeared frozen into different positions across the numerous specimens like a frame-by-frame replay, hinting at its grasping, ...

430 million years ago, towering life-forms known as Prototaxites emerged from the ground, reaching heights of up to 26 feet and growing trunks up to 3 feet wide. When the first Prototaxites fossil ...