[BenLurkin]

I visualize this kind of thing as being what people will have to deal with, if ever they colonize distant star systems.

[BenLurkin]

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Velcro-like barbed hooks cover the sponge's branching limbs, snaring crustaceans as they are swept into its branches by deep-sea currents. Once the harp sponge has its meal, it envelops the animal in a thin membrane, and then slowly begins to digest its prey.

[Hot Tabasco]

Meat-eating sponge dines

Had I stopped reading there, I would have thought this was an article about my brother-in-law.......

[shibumi]

[CrazyIvan]

Looks like a tiara to me.

[Hugin]

A team from the Monterey Bay Research Aquarium Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., discovered the sponge in 2000 while exploring bwith a remotely operated vehicle..."We were just amazed. No one had ever seen this animal with their own eyes before," said Lonny Lundsten, an invertebrate biologist at the research institute and one of the first to see the harp sponge.

Umm...they still haven't.

[SpaceBar]

A story about carnivorous colonial invertebrates on this forum seems strangely appropriate.

[Arthur McGowan]

How does an Obama voter get two miles down in the ocean?