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      • Jawless fish / Placoderms
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      • Earliest Amphibians
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      • Dinosaurus
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Kamuse - from the art of nature to the nature of art

Kamuse - from the art of nature to the nature of artKamuse - from the art of nature to the nature of artKamuse - from the art of nature to the nature of art
  • Home
  • Exhibition
    • Gallery
    • Display Cases
    • Freestanding Exhibits
  • Animals
    • Animal Biology
    • Sponges
    • Corals
    • Mollusk
    • Crustaceans
    • Cambrian Explosion
    • Jawless fish / Placoderms
    • Living Fossil
    • Modern Fish
    • Earliest Amphibians
    • Reptiles
    • Dinosaurus
    • Mammals
    • me+AI or AI+me
    • Insects
  • Botanical
    • Herbarium
    • Jar Speciments
    • Tray Speciments
  • Human
    • Anthropology
    • Anatomy
  • Ancient Civilizations
    • Tribal Africa
    • Ancient Greek/Roman
    • Ancient Asia
    • Hindu
    • Ancient Mesoamerica
    • Ancient Near East
    • Ancient Egypt

Sponges

Finger Sponge

Finger Sponge

Finger Sponge

Sponges are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells.   Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process

Bumpy Sponge

Finger Sponge

Finger Sponge

Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes. Sponges were first to branch off the evolutionary tree from the last common ancestor of all animals, making them the sister group of all other animals.[2] 

SeaFan Sponge

Finger Sponge

SeaFan Sponge

 Most sponges work rather like chimneys: they take in water at the bottom and eject it from the osculum ("little mouth") at the top. Since ambient currents are faster at the top, the suction effect that they produce by Bernoulli's principle does some of the work for free. Sponges can control the water flow by various combinations of wholly or partially closing the osculum and ostia (the intake pores) and varying the beat of the flagella, and may shut it down if there is a lot of sand or silt in the water.[26] 

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