Sponge facts: there's a "hole" lot to learn... | Animal Fact Files

Sponges don't look like they would be animals, but unlike plants sponges can't create their own food, so even though they don't move or even have organs like most animals, sponges are animals. Sponges come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. They range from polar regions to the tropics, from freshwater to saltwater, and from tidal zones to the depths of the ocean. These filter feeders cycle water through the pores found throughout their bodies.

Scientific Name: phylum - Porifera
Range: worldwide
Size: varient
Diet: organic debris (filter feeding)
Lifespan: 100s to 1,000s of years!

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Image and Video Credits:
NOAA Sanctuaries -    • Dive Site: Sponge Forest - Big Boulde...  
Marine Biodiversity Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angelos County -    • Malibu Pier piling — sponges and worm...  
TJBonebrake -    • Brown Tube Sponge  


Anna Barnett - https://flickr.com/photos/anna-barnet...


Betty Wills (Atsme) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Esculapio - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...


digifishmusic - https://freesound.org/people/digifish...
Ocean Frontiers Ltd. - https://vimeo.com/77053440
insequentways - https://vimeo.com/357483612
seawildearth = https://vimeo.com/56526602; https://vimeo.com/56452013; https://vimeo.com/56452012; https://vimeo.com/56526603
Colleen Durkin - https://vimeo.com/111239242
Manuel Maldonado, Ricardo Aguilar, Jorge Blanco, Silvia García, Alberto Serrano, and Antonio Punzón - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Nudibranch Marine Discovery Productions (Peter van Rodijnen); Stichting Natuurbeelden - https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/807556; https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/809024; https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/808283; https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/808725; https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/806548; https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/809473


Research Credits:
“An Introduction to the Invertebrates” by Janet Moore
https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
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