Watch This Deep-Sea Sponge Sneeze in Slow Motion
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SmartNews Keeping you current The glass sponge can take up to a month to finish a sneeze smithsonianmag.com an hour ago Deep…
SmartNews Keeping you current The glass sponge can take up to a month to finish a sneeze smithsonianmag.com an hour ago Deep…
“The sneeze can tell us a lot about how the sponge works and how it’s responding to the environment,” said Ludeman, a master’s…
Biologists have used a variety of drugs to elicit sneezes in freshwater sponges and observed the process using fluorescent dye.
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