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  1. Greenpeace is live streaming from the deep sea in the Arctic - incredible scenes of diverse deep sea life at 1200 meters below the surface.

    youtube.com/live/aat4yLRZ_CM?s

    #Deepsealife #sponges #coral #ocean #greenpeace #divestream

  2. #sponges hard skeletal needles keep their shape when buried n sediement so they fossilize well fossil indicate that sponges were alive at least 550 million years ago amazingly the oldest known forms look

  3. The Evolutionary Mystery of Early Animals Without Skeletons

    📰 Original title: The first animals on Earth had no skeletons and that changes everything

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/the-evolutiona

    #science #sponges #evolution #biology

  4. 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

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:psuxjjzc5cc4kp2wdgvh5qnd/post/3mdiwgokms22o

  5. 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

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:psuxjjzc5cc4kp2wdgvh5qnd/post/3mdiwgokms22o

  6. 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

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:psuxjjzc5cc4kp2wdgvh5qnd/post/3mdiwgokms22o

  7. 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

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:psuxjjzc5cc4kp2wdgvh5qnd/post/3mdiwgokms22o

  8. Early #sponges were soft phys.org/news/2026-01-earth-ea

    Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv by Maria Eleonora Rossi et al.

    "the first sponges were soft-bodied and lacked mineralized skeletons. That's why we don't see sponge spicules in rocks from around 600 million years ago—there simply weren't any to preserve... spicules evolved independently in different sponge groups"

  9. Early #sponges were soft phys.org/news/2026-01-earth-ea

    Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv by Maria Eleonora Rossi et al.

    "the first sponges were soft-bodied and lacked mineralized skeletons. That's why we don't see sponge spicules in rocks from around 600 million years ago—there simply weren't any to preserve... spicules evolved independently in different sponge groups"

  10. Early #sponges were soft phys.org/news/2026-01-earth-ea

    Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv by Maria Eleonora Rossi et al.

    "the first sponges were soft-bodied and lacked mineralized skeletons. That's why we don't see sponge spicules in rocks from around 600 million years ago—there simply weren't any to preserve... spicules evolved independently in different sponge groups"

  11. #Sponges are among earth’s most #ancient animals, but exactly when they #evolved have long puzzled scientists. #Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, suggests that sponges evolved at least 650 million years ago.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/ebio0108260

  12. #Sponges are among earth’s most #ancient animals, but exactly when they #evolved have long puzzled scientists. #Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, suggests that sponges evolved at least 650 million years ago.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/ebio0108260

  13. #Sponges are among earth’s most #ancient animals, but exactly when they #evolved have long puzzled scientists. #Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, suggests that sponges evolved at least 650 million years ago.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/ebio0108260

  14. #Sponges are among earth’s most #ancient animals, but exactly when they #evolved have long puzzled scientists. #Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, suggests that sponges evolved at least 650 million years ago.
    #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/ebio0108260

  15. 5 animals that don’t poop: The creatures that break the rules of digestion |

    Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #animalsthatdon'tpoop #Defecation #faeces #Flatworms #jellyfish #Science #Sponges #Tardigrades #Treeholefrog
    newsbeep.com/us/389256/

  16. 5 animals that don’t poop: The creatures that break the rules of digestion |

    Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #animalsthatdon'tpoop #Defecation #faeces #Flatworms #jellyfish #Science #Sponges #Tardigrades #Treeholefrog
    newsbeep.com/us/389256/

  17. A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed that was very recently covered by the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Sponges can grow very slowly, sometimes less than two centimeters a year, so the size of this specimen suggests this community has been active for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years.

    ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute

    #photography
    #MarineLife
    #sponges

  18. A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed that was very recently covered by the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Sponges can grow very slowly, sometimes less than two centimeters a year, so the size of this specimen suggests this community has been active for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years.

    ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute

    #photography
    #MarineLife
    #sponges

  19. A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed that was very recently covered by the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Sponges can grow very slowly, sometimes less than two centimeters a year, so the size of this specimen suggests this community has been active for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years.

    ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute

    #photography
    #MarineLife
    #sponges

  20. A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed that was very recently covered by the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Sponges can grow very slowly, sometimes less than two centimeters a year, so the size of this specimen suggests this community has been active for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years.

    ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute

    #photography
    #MarineLife
    #sponges

  21. A completely new order of #marine #sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug development.
    #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/12/mb12022501.

  22. A completely new order of #marine #sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug development.
    #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/12/mb12022501.

  23. A completely new order of #marine #sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug development.
    #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/12/mb12022501.

  24. A completely new order of #marine #sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug development.
    #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/12/mb12022501.

  25. #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.
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #evolution #phylogeny

  26. #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.
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #evolution #phylogeny

  27. #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.
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #evolution #phylogeny

  28. #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.
    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #evolution #phylogeny

  29. 🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

    👉 newsbeep.com/au/178471/

    #paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

  30. 🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

    👉 newsbeep.com/au/178471/

    #paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

  31. 🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

    👉 newsbeep.com/au/178471/

    #paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

  32. 🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

    👉 newsbeep.com/au/178471/

    #paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

  33. These Dolphins Use Sea Sponges on Their Faces to Hunt and It’s More Complicated Than Anyone Thought

    Sponge face. Some dolphins in Shark Bay use marine sponges as a fishing tool. Credit: Eric Patterson One dolphin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Canada #culturaltransmission #Dolphins #Science #Sponges
    newsbeep.com/ca/25715/

  34. These Dolphins Use Sea Sponges on Their Faces to Hunt and It’s More Complicated Than Anyone Thought

    Sponge face. Some dolphins in Shark Bay use marine sponges as a fishing tool. Credit: Eric Patterson One dolphin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Canada #culturaltransmission #Dolphins #Science #Sponges
    newsbeep.com/ca/25715/

  35. These Dolphins Use Sea Sponges on Their Faces to Hunt and It’s More Complicated Than Anyone Thought

    Sponge face. Some dolphins in Shark Bay use marine sponges as a fishing tool. Credit: Eric Patterson One dolphin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Canada #culturaltransmission #Dolphins #Science #Sponges
    newsbeep.com/ca/25715/

  36. These Dolphins Use Sea Sponges on Their Faces to Hunt and It’s More Complicated Than Anyone Thought

    Sponge face. Some dolphins in Shark Bay use marine sponges as a fishing tool. Credit: Eric Patterson One dolphin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #culturaltransmission #dolphins #Science #Sponges #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/24300/