These sponges are cool..

[Elite]

If we can get/keep them, that would be hella cool.. 8)
http://research.calacademy.org/research/izg/CoralReefOrganisms/Sponges/Sponges.htm

 

[sfsuphysics]

Strange I don't recall seeing too much in the way of sponges there, on a good note though looks like the algae is getting under control in the big tank, at least on the corals themselves, whether that's because a fish ate it or someone scrubbed it I don't know though.

 

[GreshamH]

Being they are a HUGE depository for stuff like this, I doubt you've seen even 100,000th of their collection Ever see their coelacanth?

 

[Lyn]

Do they have a live Coelacanth? I remember studying these in college, and then one pops out of the ocean like a dinosaur coming back to life. Made big news in the Sci world.

 

[GreshamH]

Collection of DEAD stuff The locals always knew about them, it's us westerners that think they were rediscovered :lol:

 

[Lyn]

LOL, yeah, you're right...they were fishing them and eating them for years...

 

[GreshamH]

I watched an old documentary on them just a few weeks ago. Boy was it a dated show

 

[tuberider]

I saw the dead Coelacanth when I was there 14 years ago. The room with dead stuff in jars was the place to be in the academy I tell ya. You could have betting pools going on in there with themes like "name the dead thing in a jar" or "whose spleen does this belong to?"