The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton, the base of the food web, can accidentally ingest particles of sediment kicked up ...

Nothing unifies a generation quite like cartoons. The Silent Generation has Mickey Mouse. Baby Boomers have Bugs Bunny. And Millennials? We have SpongeBob SquarePants. Created by Stephen Hillenburg ...

The Gist: We open with SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) singing a little ditty that Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) interrupts because this is his movie – but don’t worry, SpongeBob plays a prominent role, because this ...

I would be thrilled to report that I loved “Plankton: The Movie,” a “SpongeBob SquarePants” spinoff film. I'd love to say that it is the cinematic hit of the spring. Alas, I cannot. It’s only OK, and ...

A brand new SpongeBob SquarePants movie has just dropped on Netflix. Plankton: The Movie follows the iconic titular villain as he's forced to team up with enemy SpongeBob after his computer wife Karen ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything. Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on ...