Hawai’i researchers have identified ten new sponge species in Kāneʻohe Bay, emphasizing their ecological importance in coral ...

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i ...

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology (HIMB) have uncovered 10 new species of marine sponges in Kaneohe Bay.

In a series of newly published groundbreaking studies, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute ...

The new species are all types of sponges, “grubby little” creatures that are often overlooked but play a critically important role in coral reef communities, one of the researchers said.

In response, reef species have evolved a fantastic array of survival strategies ... To protect themselves they resort to chemical warfare. Nudibranchs eat sponges and recycle the poisonous chemicals ...

allowing us to observe and document the species without causing harm to the surrounding reef. After sponge collection, we used DNA to narrow down what species we were looking at. Then we dug into ...

“We used ARMS to collect sponges from within the reef,” said Rachel Nunley ... we conducted DNA analysis to identify the species. We found that these species in Kaneohe Bay are new to science ...