The biggest sea sponge on record, estimated to be thousands of years old and bigger than a car, was discovered by a team of NOAA scientists off Hawaii.

Newly discovered organisms are still showing us just how little we know about life in the oceans; this includes a new type of sponge that eats other animals, the “death ball sponge”, that was discovered recently in the Southern Ocean.

NOAA scientists have identified the mysterious 'golden orb' discovered in 2023 over two miles deep in the Gulf of Alaska as the remains of a giant deep-sea anemone's base. The multi-year investigation required morphological, genetic, and bioinformatics ...

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The first in situ exploration of deep-sea coral habitat in the central Aleutian Islands in 2002 confirmed expectations that had been based on fishery bycatch and research survey records which indicate corals are widespread, diverse, and abundant.