Comments on: Porifera https://earthlife.net/porifera-indestructible-sponges/ An encyclopedia of life on earth Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gordon Ramel https://earthlife.net/porifera-indestructible-sponges/#comment-4380 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:50:55 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=1929#comment-4380 In reply to Gregg Ward.

A sponge dies as it’s individual cells die. Cells die when the cell structure breaks down, like any machine when the parts stop working the whole stops working. Many things can cause this including pollution, environmental changes and diseases, such as that responsible for the 2009 dies off of several sponge species in the Adriatic Sea.

]]> By: Gregg Ward https://earthlife.net/porifera-indestructible-sponges/#comment-4342 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:41:11 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=1929#comment-4342 Mr. Ramel:

I hope that you’re well. Can you please tell me how do sponges die? What’s the mechanism?

]]> By: Gordon Ramel https://earthlife.net/porifera-indestructible-sponges/#comment-707 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:18:36 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=1929#comment-707 In reply to Noa.

Thanks Noa, it is fixed.

]]> By: Noa https://earthlife.net/porifera-indestructible-sponges/#comment-703 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:37:22 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=1929#comment-703 Hi, The first photo on the Porifera page is a colonial ascidian…
Just not to confuse between the two very different (but similar) groups.
Noa Shenkar

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