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Sponges & Scrubbers Market in Germany | Report – IndexBox
This report is an independent strategic category study of the market for Sponges & Scrubbers in Ge…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Abrasivematerialbonding #Antimicrobialtreatments #Bathroomsurfacecleaning #consumergoodsmarketreport #Ergonomichandledesign #forecast #Kitchencounterandsinkcleaning #Manualdishwashing #marketanalysis #Panandpotscrubbing #Quick-dryfoamformulations #Sponges&Scrubbers
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Sometimes you find an interesting #Stone and sometimes you find something interesting on the stone. Some photographs from past #ShoreWalk 📸📸 🦑 🌿 #Photography #虫 #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #SciArt #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #Intertidal #Snails #Corals #Sponges #Oysters
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A new Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many non-bilaterian animals including beautiful sponge (panel b, c) and ctenophore (panel d) fossils🤩 🧽🪼. #sponges #ctenophores #Cambrian
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#Sponges are back at the root of the animal tree! I knew the cnidarians-as-root hypothesis was just too hard justify given the sum total of evidence.
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#MarineFungi Could Eat #PlasticPollution, Helping to Clean Our #Oceans and #Beaches
Learn more about the marine #fungi that could be conditioned to help clean up #Hawaii’s beaches.
By Monica Cull
Feb 14, 2025 4:00 PMFeb 14, 2025 4:01 PM"Hawaii is home to some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes. Striking blue waters, lush jungles, and pristine beaches make it a paradise. It’s also home to other unique inhabitants, such as sea turtles, dolphins, and… plastics?
"According to a new study from the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, plastics are becoming the most prevalent form of pollution in the ocean, which can be detrimental to marine species and their habitat. However, researchers from UH discovered a fungus from Hawai‘i’s nearshore environment that may have the ability to break down plastics, and to top it off, they may be conditioned to do it faster. The findings were recently published in Mycologia.
" 'Plastic in the environment today is extremely long-lived and is nearly impossible to degrade using existing technologies,' said Ronja Steinbach, lead author of the study and a marine biology undergraduate student at the UH Mānoa College of Natural Sciences, in a press release.
"Marine fungi may be a term you’ve never heard before. This is likely due to the fact that less than 1 percent of marine fungi are known to science.
" 'Our research highlights marine fungi as a promising and largely untapped group to investigate for new ways to recycle and remove plastic from #nature. Very few people study fungi in the ocean, and we estimated that fewer than one percent of marine fungi are currently described,' said Steinbach in the press release.
"For this study, the research team looked at marine fungi found in #corals, #seaweed, #sand, and #sponges from Hawai’i’s nearshore. And they hope that the fungi could help degrade plastics in the marine environment.
" 'Fungi possess a superpower for eating things that other organisms can’t digest (like #wood or #chitin), so we tested the fungi in our collection for their ability to digest plastic,' said Anthony Amend, Pacific Biosciences Research Center professor and co-lead author of the study, in a press release.
The Hungry Fungi
"The team exposed the fastest-growing fungi to small dishes filled with #polyurethane, a common plastic, and noted if and how fast the fungi would consume it. The team also 'experimentally evolved' the fungi to see if they would grow and consume more polyurethane the more they were exposed to the plastic.
" 'We were shocked to find that more than 60 percent of the fungi we collected from the ocean had some ability to eat plastic and transform it into fungi,' Steinbach said in a press release. 'We were also impressed to see how quickly fungi were able to adapt. It was very exciting to see that in just three months, a relatively short amount of time, some of the fungi were able to increase their feeding rates by as much as 15 percent.'
"The research team is currently working to see if these marine fungi can break down other forms of plastics, such as #polyethylene and #PolyethyleneTerephthalate. They’re also trying to understand how, at a molecular level, these fungi can degrade these plastics.
" 'We hope to collaborate with #engineers, #chemists, and #oceanographers who can leverage these findings into actual solutions to clean up our beaches and oceans,' said Steinbach in a press release.
#SolarPunkSunday #PlasticPollution #Pollution #PollutionSolutions
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Gardeners urged to add sponges to hanging baskets and plants now https://www.allforgardening.com/1334658/gardeners-urged-to-add-sponges-to-hanging-baskets-and-plants-now/ #DoSpongesHelpPlants #flowers #garden #gardener #gardening #HangingBasketCare #HangingBaskets #HowToMakePlantsGrow #plants #soil #SoilNutrients #SpongeInGarden #SpongeInPlants #sponges #SpongesInGarden
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Thriving Antarctic Ecosystems Found in Wake of Recently Detached Iceberg https://schmidtocean.org/thriving-antarctic-ecosystems-found-in-wake-of-recently-detached-iceberg/
"team on board #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s R/V Falkor (too) rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month, covered by ice... they observed the #DeepSea for 8 days and found flourishing ecosystems at depths as great as 1300m. Their observations include large #corals and #sponges supporting an array of animal life, including #icefish, giant #SeaSpiders, and #octopus"
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It's #SpongeSunday! The cavities in the body of this long-stalked #Caulophacus #sponge give this resident white #squatlobster (#Munidopsis sp.) a room with a view, as well as protection from potential predators.
@EVNautilus #lobsters #sponges #marineanimals
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#SpongeSunday: Some #glasssponges, such as this 2-meter-tall #Caulophacus, grow long, flexible stalks to reach higher in the water column for #filterfeeding. Some sponges are thought to be hundreds or even thousands of years old!
@EVNautilus #Sponges #marineanimals #ocean
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Scientists film marine creatures under sea ice in East Antarctica
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-14/scientists-film-sealife-under-bunger-hills-east-antarctica/104811258"Plunging to depths of up to 50m, the drone captures an array of colour and life. Red #SeaUrchins can be seen clinging to boulders covered in pink #algae. Orange #SeaCucumbers with small white tentacles are lying on the floor. #Jellyfish are floating above large yellow #sponges far below. Every now and again, schools of splotchy grey-and-white #fish surround the drone and try to nibble its camera."
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#Sponges' #symbiosis with #bacteria helps them store toxic #molybdenum to keep predators away
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-sponges-symbiosis-bacteria-toxic-molybdenum.htmlOut of the blue: Hyperaccumulation of molybdenum in the Indo-Pacific sponge Theonella conica https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3923
"Entotheonella serves as a detoxifying organ for accumulating metals inside the body of its #sponge hosts. Hoarding more and more molybdenum, the bacteria convert it from its toxic soluble state into a mineral."
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#Sponges' #symbiosis with #bacteria helps them store toxic #molybdenum to keep predators away
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-sponges-symbiosis-bacteria-toxic-molybdenum.htmlOut of the blue: Hyperaccumulation of molybdenum in the Indo-Pacific sponge Theonella conica https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3923
"Entotheonella serves as a detoxifying organ for accumulating metals inside the body of its #sponge hosts. Hoarding more and more molybdenum, the bacteria convert it from its toxic soluble state into a mineral."
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#Sponges' #symbiosis with #bacteria helps them store toxic #molybdenum to keep predators away
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-sponges-symbiosis-bacteria-toxic-molybdenum.htmlOut of the blue: Hyperaccumulation of molybdenum in the Indo-Pacific sponge Theonella conica https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3923
"Entotheonella serves as a detoxifying organ for accumulating metals inside the body of its #sponge hosts. Hoarding more and more molybdenum, the bacteria convert it from its toxic soluble state into a mineral."
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#Sponges' #symbiosis with #bacteria helps them store toxic #molybdenum to keep predators away
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-sponges-symbiosis-bacteria-toxic-molybdenum.htmlOut of the blue: Hyperaccumulation of molybdenum in the Indo-Pacific sponge Theonella conica https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3923
"Entotheonella serves as a detoxifying organ for accumulating metals inside the body of its #sponge hosts. Hoarding more and more molybdenum, the bacteria convert it from its toxic soluble state into a mineral."
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#Sponges' #symbiosis with #bacteria helps them store toxic #molybdenum to keep predators away
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-sponges-symbiosis-bacteria-toxic-molybdenum.htmlOut of the blue: Hyperaccumulation of molybdenum in the Indo-Pacific sponge Theonella conica https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3923
"Entotheonella serves as a detoxifying organ for accumulating metals inside the body of its #sponge hosts. Hoarding more and more molybdenum, the bacteria convert it from its toxic soluble state into a mineral."
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'Missing' sea #sponges discovered https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/missing-sea-sponges-discovered
A late-#Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y
"No problem dating them back 700 million years. Yet convincing sponge #fossils only go back about 540 million years, leaving a 160-million-year gap in the fossil record... now researchers have reported a 550-million-year-old sea sponge from the 'lost years' and proposed that the earliest sea sponges had not yet developed mineral skeletons"
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Team discovers 'missing' sea sponges https://phys.org/news/2024-06-geobiologist-team-sea-sponges.html
A late-#Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y
"Molecular clock estimates indicate that #sponges must have evolved about 700 million years ago. And yet there had been no convincing sponge #fossils found in rocks that old."
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Unknown species discovered on deep-sea expedition
https://www.gu.se/en/news/unknown-species-discovered-on-deep-sea-expedition"Transparent #SeaCucumbers, bowl-shaped #sponges, and pink sea pigs are some of the fascinating #animals discovered during a #DeepSea #expedition to the #Pacific Ocean."
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Chondrocladia Sponge
https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous #DeepSea sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the #abyssal #ocean... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water #sponges, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small #crustaceans) using hooked spicules."
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Chondrocladia Sponge
https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous #DeepSea sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the #abyssal #ocean... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water #sponges, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small #crustaceans) using hooked spicules."
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Chondrocladia Sponge
https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous #DeepSea sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the #abyssal #ocean... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water #sponges, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small #crustaceans) using hooked spicules."
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Chondrocladia Sponge
https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous #DeepSea sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the #abyssal #ocean... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water #sponges, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small #crustaceans) using hooked spicules."
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Chondrocladia Sponge
https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous #DeepSea sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the #abyssal #ocean... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water #sponges, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small #crustaceans) using hooked spicules."
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#Canada moves to protect #CoralReef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’
Discovery was made after #FirstNations tipped off #ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off #BritishColumbia
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Fri 15 Mar 2024"On the last of nearly 20 dives, the team made a startling discovery – one that has only recently been made public.
"'When we started to see the living corals, everyone was in doubt,' says Cherisse Du Preez, head of the deep-sea ecology program at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 'Then, when we saw the expansive fields of coral in front of us, everybody just let loose. There were a lot of pure human emotions.'
"Despite existing in absolute darkness, the lights of the submersible captured the rich pinks, yellows and purples of the #corals and #sponges.
"The following year, the team mapped #LopheliaReef, or #q̓áuc̓íwísuxv, as it has been named by the #Kitasoo Xai’xais and #Heiltsuk First Nations. It is the country’s only known living coral reef.
"The discovery marks the latest in a string of instances in which Indigenous knowledge has directed researchers to areas of scientific or historic importance. More than a decade ago, #Inuk oral historian Louie Kamookak compared #Inuit stories with explorers’ logbooks and journals to help locate Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In 2014, divers located the wreck of the Erebus in a spot Kamookak suggested they search, and using his directions found the Terror two years later."
#IndigenousWisdom #Environment #WaterIsLife #PacificOcean #DeepSeaEcosystems #NoDumping
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See the dozens of #NewSpecies this #DeepSea robot just discovered https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/24/new-species-deep-sea/
"Forests of ancient #corals. Clusters of undersea #urchins with cactus-like spikes, as if a desert had been inundated. Gardens of glassy #sponges, clinging to the slopes of an underwater mountain range soaring up thousands of feet from the #seafloor."
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Underwater Mountains Harbor Abundant Life Off Chile’s Coast
https://schmidtocean.org/underwater-mountains-harbor-abundant-life/"#scientists may have discovered more than 100 #NewSpecies living on #seamounts off the coast of #Chile. The recent #SchmidtOceanInstitute expedition resulted in identifying #DeepSea #corals, glass #sponges, #SeaUrchins, #amphipods, squat #lobsters, and other species likely #NewToScience."
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Simple sponge test can prevent cancer deaths that 'hides in plain sight'
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/simple-sponge-test-can-prevent-cancer-that-hides-in-plain-sight/ar-BB1hML6g?cvid=ec3f4e5e12064dd0ade685102fc673fd&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=8#Cancer
#Sponges
#CapsuleSpongeTest
#Oesophagus
#OesophagealCancer
#Heartburn
#HeartburnCancerUK
#MimiMcCord
#Indigestion
#Endoscopy
#NHS
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‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing #Arctic world https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/03/spoon-worms-lick-the-seabed-with-a-metre-long-tongue-a-voyage-into-a-vanishing-arctic-world
"in places, large numbers of #SeaCucumbers and huge colonies of filter-feeding #FeatherStars appear in the spotlights. We marvel at basketball-sized #sponges flickering across the #scientists’ screens, at apricot-coloured #anemones and star-shaped patterns extending around the burrows of spoon #worms"
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Four New #Seamounts Discovered in the High Seas
https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/"The crew of #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s research vessel #Falkor (too) discovered four underwater mountains — the tallest of which is over 1.5 miles high — on a January transit from #CostaRica to #Chile... The seamounts were found as the technicians plotted a course to examine gravity anomalies during the transit... Underwater mountains and trenches often host #DeepSea #CoralReefs, #sponges, & #anemones"
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Four New #Seamounts Discovered in the High Seas
https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/"The crew of #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s research vessel #Falkor (too) discovered four underwater mountains — the tallest of which is over 1.5 miles high — on a January transit from #CostaRica to #Chile... The seamounts were found as the technicians plotted a course to examine gravity anomalies during the transit... Underwater mountains and trenches often host #DeepSea #CoralReefs, #sponges, & #anemones"
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Four New #Seamounts Discovered in the High Seas
https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/"The crew of #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s research vessel #Falkor (too) discovered four underwater mountains — the tallest of which is over 1.5 miles high — on a January transit from #CostaRica to #Chile... The seamounts were found as the technicians plotted a course to examine gravity anomalies during the transit... Underwater mountains and trenches often host #DeepSea #CoralReefs, #sponges, & #anemones"
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Four New #Seamounts Discovered in the High Seas
https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/"The crew of #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s research vessel #Falkor (too) discovered four underwater mountains — the tallest of which is over 1.5 miles high — on a January transit from #CostaRica to #Chile... The seamounts were found as the technicians plotted a course to examine gravity anomalies during the transit... Underwater mountains and trenches often host #DeepSea #CoralReefs, #sponges, & #anemones"
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Four New #Seamounts Discovered in the High Seas
https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/"The crew of #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s research vessel #Falkor (too) discovered four underwater mountains — the tallest of which is over 1.5 miles high — on a January transit from #CostaRica to #Chile... The seamounts were found as the technicians plotted a course to examine gravity anomalies during the transit... Underwater mountains and trenches often host #DeepSea #CoralReefs, #sponges, & #anemones"
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Massive New #Seamount Discovered in International Waters Off #Guatemala
https://schmidtocean.org/massive-new-seamount-off-guatemala/"The 1,600-meter seamount covers 14 square kilometers and sits 2,400 meters below sea level... This marks the ninth #seafloor #discovery since the #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too), was launched in March... #Seamounts are #biodiversity hotspots, providing surfaces for #DeepSea #corals, #sponges, and a host of #invertebrates... There are more than 100,000 #unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters."
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Massive New #Seamount Discovered in International Waters Off #Guatemala
https://schmidtocean.org/massive-new-seamount-off-guatemala/"The 1,600-meter seamount covers 14 square kilometers and sits 2,400 meters below sea level... This marks the ninth #seafloor #discovery since the #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too), was launched in March... #Seamounts are #biodiversity hotspots, providing surfaces for #DeepSea #corals, #sponges, and a host of #invertebrates... There are more than 100,000 #unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters."
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Massive New #Seamount Discovered in International Waters Off #Guatemala
https://schmidtocean.org/massive-new-seamount-off-guatemala/"The 1,600-meter seamount covers 14 square kilometers and sits 2,400 meters below sea level... This marks the ninth #seafloor #discovery since the #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too), was launched in March... #Seamounts are #biodiversity hotspots, providing surfaces for #DeepSea #corals, #sponges, and a host of #invertebrates... There are more than 100,000 #unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters."
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Massive New #Seamount Discovered in International Waters Off #Guatemala
https://schmidtocean.org/massive-new-seamount-off-guatemala/"The 1,600-meter seamount covers 14 square kilometers and sits 2,400 meters below sea level... This marks the ninth #seafloor #discovery since the #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too), was launched in March... #Seamounts are #biodiversity hotspots, providing surfaces for #DeepSea #corals, #sponges, and a host of #invertebrates... There are more than 100,000 #unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters."
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Massive New #Seamount Discovered in International Waters Off #Guatemala
https://schmidtocean.org/massive-new-seamount-off-guatemala/"The 1,600-meter seamount covers 14 square kilometers and sits 2,400 meters below sea level... This marks the ninth #seafloor #discovery since the #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too), was launched in March... #Seamounts are #biodiversity hotspots, providing surfaces for #DeepSea #corals, #sponges, and a host of #invertebrates... There are more than 100,000 #unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters."
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#Scientists find banded sand #catsharks hiding inside sea sponges https://phys.org/news/2023-09-scientists-banded-sand-catsharks-sea.html
#Sharks checking in to the #sponge hotel: first internal use of #sponges of the genus #Agelas and family #Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks #Atelomycterus fasciatus. By Helen O'Neill et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.15554
"Some bony #fish use sponges as #microhabitats. However, this behavior had never been seen before in sharks or other #elasmobranchs, the group including sharks, #rays, #skates, #sawfish"