NOAA scientists use remotely operated vehicles to explore and photograph deep-sea habitats. On Tuesday, an expedition spotted a sea sponge and sea star together a mile deep in the Atlantic. A ...

Footage of the famous cartoon characters' real-life counterparts was captured by a submersible sent out by NOAA's Okeanos Explorer to observe the Retriever Seamount off the coast of New England Kelli ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...

It looks like SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star might have been spotted outside of Bikini Bottom. A marine biologist posted a picture of a yellow sea sponge sitting next to a pink starfish in the ...