Sponge Science, Explained

The best popular-science explainers on poriferan biology: filter-feeding, light-sensing, and the shrimp that marry their sponge.

Playlist by @glass_sponge_docs

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World — PBS Eons
  2. How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World — PBS Eons
  3. Phylum Porifera: Sponges — Professor Dave Explains
  4. Can Sponges “Think” Using Light? — SciShow
  5. The Shrimp and the Sponge: A Deep Sea Love Story — SciShow
  6. All About Sponges — Next Generation Science
  7. Facts: Sponges — Deep Marine Scenes
  8. Sponges and Animal Origins | Shape of Life — Animal Zone with Dr. Monzon
  9. Porifera (Sponges)- Morphology, Classification, & Evolution- Invertebrate Paleontology | GEO GIRL — GEO GIRL
  10. Nothing About Sea Sponges Is Normal… Here’s Why — Science Trail
  11. Scientists absorbed by deep-sea sponges - futuris — Euronews Next
  12. Sponges and Jellies Lecture — Ecogeek Jones