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Glass sponges have an average lifespan of around 10,000 years, with some believed to live over 15,000 years. This is significantly longer than the second- and third-longest-living creatures, with ...
When most people think of sponges, they think of squishy, soap-filled kitchen sponges, or perhaps the graceful barrel sponges that grow around coral reefs. But in the dark depths of the ocean ...
April 27, 2009 - A new study appearing in Restoration Ecology describes a novel technique for reattaching large sponges that have been dislodged from coral reefs. The findings could be generally ...
A Venus’s-flower-basket isn’t all show. This stunning deep-sea sponge can also alter the flow of seawater in surprising ways. A lacy, barrel-shaped chamber forms the sponge’s glassy skeleton ...
Other barrel sponges in the area were were not impacted suggesting that it was indeed the touching by divers that led to the sponge’s demise. Through the research of my student Shane Stone and myself, ...
In the absence of coral on Florida’s ailing reefs, a titan of the sea is taking over: giant barrel sponges. Big as a bathtub, the redwoods of the reef can live for centuries and grow to six feet ...
Sponge frillgobies live between 30 feet to 100 feet down and on the outer surface of giant barrel sponges, scientifically known as Xestospongia testudinaria and pictured above, the study said.
It is the 2.5 meter (8.2 feet) diameter giant (photo below) that was a tourist attraction for scuba divers visiting Curaçao in the Caribbean in the early 1990s. Unfortunately frequent touching by ...
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