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Meet the carnivorous sponges new to science

CIENTISTS FROM THE Queensland Museum (QM) have described three new species of carnivorous sponges from the. The three species are all members of the Cladorhizidae family, deep-sea dwelling sponges that passively capture and digest small invertebrates and crustaceans with spindly filaments or appendages.

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