Image: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana Have you heard of the glass delusion ?

Image: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana After that weird forest of sponges , I thought it would be nice ...

Remember how hard-working, deep sea sponges look like satellite dishes and mouths-on-sticks? It's important to note that that'...

Well, if you call it a Forest of the Weird you know my interest will be piqued. I love a weird forest. Whether it's a mushroom fores...

Image: Bernard DUPONT Corythaeola cristata It's Blue Monday! Mathematically proven to be the most depressing day of the year by qu...

Image: Richard Ling Echinoclathria leporina It's the most absurdly dramatic sponge in the world!

Image: Richard Ling Ianthella basta If it's bad to make a pig's ear of a thing, how much worse an elephant's?

Image: John Turnbull Holopsamma laminaefavosa It's a shame the Cream Honeycomb Sponge doesn't have any honey in it.

It's a Venus Flower Basket !

Image: Sean Nash It's a BORING SPONGE !!! Are you stifling a yawn? Because you wouldn't if the boring sponge was digging and d...

Image: NOAA A crab, presumably a King Crab because of the six walking legs, hangs out on a Yellow Picasso Sponge. This particular spec...

Just when you thought it was safe to step into the bathroom, researchers introduce four new species of carnivorous sponge to the "Kn...

Image: California Academy of Sciences Holes! Holes in a thing! Some people really hate to see holes in a thing. It makes them feel uncom...

Image: Min Sheng Khoo Oceanapia sagittaria I had no idea something like this existed. It's an underground sponge!

Image: NOAA Heterochone calyx What? Don't tell me they're still using gramophones in the deep sea?

Image: MBARI Chondrocladia lyra Isn't it lovely? Among all the gnashing teeth and wobbling flab of the deep sea is a beautiful harp...

Image: neptunecanada via Flickr Isn't it strange? You go to the cold, dark depths of the sea and it turns out you just missed a...

Image: WoRMS for SMEBD Halichondria panicea So popular they named it more than 50 times!

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010 Oh! The pretty, pretty flowers of the deep, deep sea Alive in the depths incongr...

Image: NOAA/MBARI Sponges of the genus Caulophacus look just like little, white mushrooms.