Three Facts About Porifera (Sponges):- Early fossil records show that sponges inhabited Earth around 600 million years ago!
- Sponges often use chemicals to deter predators from eating them. Scientists have discovered that some of these chemicals may have potential to treat cancer and HIV.
- Sponges are master filters. They can filter an amount of water 100,000 times their size each day! That means a basketball-sized sponge could filter an entire residential pool in one day.
Before reading this, I thought sponges only existed as fictional cartoon characters. Pretty awesome that they're an actual thing. The fact they can get that big blows my mind. I can't even comprehend it.
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