The Immortal Glass Sponge: 15,000-Year Lives

Why the glass sponge may be the oldest-living animal on Earth — silica skeletons, no senescence, and record-breaking individuals.

Playlist by @glass_sponge_docs

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Immortal Glass Sponge | Ocean Wise — Ocean Wise
2. What Exactly is: Glass Sponge | The Witnesses of Earth Recent History — Out-of-Place Zoologist
3. This Deep Sea Sponge is Ancient and Made of Glass | The Curious Current — The Curious Current
4. Glass Sponge: The Oldest Animal on Earth? The Animal That Can Live 15,000 Years — New Africa Official
5. The Oldest Living Marine Creatures Ever Found - Glass Sponges — Beyond the Deep
6. The Glass Sponge(Aphrocallistes Vastus) — animals-R9
7. Glass Sponge | The Oldest Organism Ever — Ocean Floor Mysteries
8. Long-Living Giants: Age and Growth Dynamics of Deep-Sea Glass Sponges — EduFactual
9. Scientists Discovered a Creature That May Be 2300 Years Old — Simon's Sea Monsters
10. How sponges ‘spike’ themselves with glass — Science Magazine
11. Glass sponges (phylum Porifera: class Hexactinellida) — D P Jones
12. Vazella is older than the dinosaurs! An amazing Atlantic sponge — Fisheries and Oceans Canada