How Water Flows Inside a Sea Sponge
An international research team co-led by Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri found that not only is the deep-sea Venus flower basket sponge’s delicate-seeming structure able to withstand the harsh deep sea conditions of its habitat — itself a marvel of natural engineering — but it is able to filter feed using only the faint ambient currents of the ocean depths, no pumping required.
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