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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺The Borealis Mud Volcano: A hidden sanctuary for marine biodiversity <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-borealis-mud-volcano-hidden-sanctuary.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-01-borealis-mud-volcano-hidden-sanctuary.html</a>Sanctuary for vulnerable <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arctic</a> species at the Borealis Mud Volcano: Giuliana Panieri et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55712-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55712-x</a>"the carbonate crusts that characterized Borealis provide a suitably hard substrate for species of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anemones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anemones</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/serpulids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#serpulids</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/demosponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demosponges</a>, and sparse <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/octocorals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#octocorals</a>." <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Animals</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sponges</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corals</a>

Art History Animalia<a href="https://historians.social/tags/Corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corals</a> (and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sponges</a>) Plate V from The World of the Sea (London, 1869) Via Biodiversity Heritage Library : <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/51236626883/in/album-72157719441825715" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/51236626883/in/album-72157719441825715</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Scientists film marine creatures under sea ice in East Antarctica <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-14/scientists-film-sealife-under-bunger-hills-east-antarctica/104811258" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-14/scientists-film-sealife-under-bunger-hills-east-antarctica/104811258</a>"Plunging to depths of up to 50m, the drone captures an array of colour and life. Red <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaUrchins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaUrchins</a> can be seen clinging to boulders covered in pink <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a>. Orange <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaCucumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaCucumbers</a> with small white tentacles are lying on the floor. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jellyfish</a> are floating above large yellow <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> far below. Every now and again, schools of splotchy grey-and-white <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fish</a> surround the drone and try to nibble its camera."

webcubusI love seeing a new-to-me species! While they look like anemones, they are actually sponge zoanthids and they completely covered the exterior of this pink vase sponge. Like their relatives the corals and jellies, they use their sticky tentacles to grab stuff out of the water column as it passes by. Very cool!<a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invertebrates</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/reef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reef</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/underwaterPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#underwaterPhotography</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/macroPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macroPhotography</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/olympus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olympus</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cuba</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/scuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scuba</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/scubaDiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scubaDiving</a>

Ika MakimakiThe climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis are intertwined. We need to urgently reduce emissions AND protect vulnerable ecosystems to prevent more things like these from happening. 😔 <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/climateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateDiary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/aotearoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aotearoa</a>Mass bleaching of NZ marine sponges largest ever recorded globally <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524348/mass-bleaching-of-nz-marine-sponges-largest-ever-recorded-globally" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524348/mass-bleaching-of-nz-marine-sponges-largest-ever-recorded-globally</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Going deeper for healthy offshore reefs in Storm Bay <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-07-deeper-healthy-offshore-reefs-storm.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-07-deeper-healthy-offshore-reefs-storm.html</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scientists</a> have used high-tech underwater <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#robots</a> to take a closer look at the deep offshore reefs on the east coast of Bruny Island in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Tasmania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tasmania</a> and have revealed the seabed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> there for the first time... <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/seaweed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seaweed</a> cover dominates the shallower depths of these reefs, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corals</a>, and other seabed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> are more prevalent below 40 meters.

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺'Missing' sea <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> discovered <a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/missing-sea-sponges-discovered" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/missing-sea-sponges-discovered</a>A late-<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ediacaran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ediacaran</a> crown-group sponge animal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y</a>"No problem dating them back 700 million years. Yet convincing sponge <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> 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"

GeologistsCatToday is day 16 of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/30DaysWild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#30DaysWild</a>. During <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hedgewatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hedgewatch</a> my humans found <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flintstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flintstone</a>/#flint/#Feuerstein😻 Pawesome🐾 Flint is made of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quartz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quartz</a> & forms often in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chalk</a>. The silica is probably from the skeleton of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>. The exact formation isn't clear yet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PawForScale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PawForScale</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geologywithcats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geologywithcats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatsOfMastodon</a> #

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Team discovers 'missing' sea sponges <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-geobiologist-team-sea-sponges.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-06-geobiologist-team-sea-sponges.html</a>A late-<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ediacaran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ediacaran</a> crown-group sponge animal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y</a>"Molecular clock estimates indicate that <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> must have evolved about 700 million years ago. And yet there had been no convincing sponge <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> found in rocks that old."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Unknown species discovered on deep-sea expedition <a href="https://www.gu.se/en/news/unknown-species-discovered-on-deep-sea-expedition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gu.se/en/news/unknown-species-discovered-on-deep-sea-expedition</a>"Transparent <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaCucumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaCucumbers</a>, bowl-shaped <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>, and pink sea pigs are some of the fascinating <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> discovered during a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/expedition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#expedition</a> to the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pacific</a> Ocean."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Chondrocladia Sponge <a href="https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/</a>"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/abyssal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abyssal</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a>... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crustaceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crustaceans</a>) using hooked spicules."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Research team discovers more than 50 potentially new <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> species in one of the most unexplored areas of the planet, underwater mountains of the Salas y Gómez Ridge <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-04-team-potentially-deep-sea-species.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-04-team-potentially-deep-sea-species.html</a> "they also found one of the deepest <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mesophotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mesophotic</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corals</a> in the world, extending the distribution of this Polynesian fauna by several hundred kilometers... & fields of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> and corals, habitats that are considered vulnerable and in need of protection"

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Finally the agency has proposed protecting 97 square miles of their habitat across 16 Indo-Pacific islands. Now it needs a push from you to finalize those <a href="https://mas.to/tags/protections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protections</a>.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corals</a> play a crucial role in marine <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a>. They reduce coastline erosion, buffer coastline <a href="https://mas.to/tags/communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communities</a> against storms, and create habitat for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fish</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/crabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crabs</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SeaStars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaStars</a> and other <a href="https://mas.to/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a>. 🐟 🪸 🦀 2/3

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Four New <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Seamounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seamounts</a> Discovered in the High Seas <a href="https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://schmidtocean.org/four-new-seamounts-discovered-in-the-high-seas/</a>"The crew of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SchmidtOceanInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SchmidtOceanInstitute</a>’s research vessel <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Falkor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Falkor</a> (too) discovered four underwater mountains — the tallest of which is over 1.5 miles high — on a January transit from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CostaRica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CostaRica</a> to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chile</a>... The seamounts were found as the technicians plotted a course to examine gravity anomalies during the transit... Underwater mountains and trenches often host <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CoralReefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoralReefs</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>, & <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anemones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anemones</a>"

Colin PurringtonFor those who might be curious, you can still buy actual sponges (Porifera) for your sponging needs. I'm posting in part because I recently had a conversation with a person who argued that loofahs (gourds in the genus Luffa that can be dried) were actual sponges. Useless trivia for the party this weekend. <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/squashes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#squashes</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/porifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#porifa</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/cucurbitaceae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cucurbitaceae</a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/hippospongia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hippospongia</a>

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