Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Belinda the surprisingly busy sea sponge takes a whole day to sneeze <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/belinda-sea-sponge-sneezing-1.7426170" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/belin</span><span class="invisible">da-sea-sponge-sneezing-1.7426170</span></a></p><p>"researchers have used 4 years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> to paint a picture of the daily life of a busy <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sponge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sponge</span></a>... They learned Belinda has both a daily and an annual routine, changing shape, size and colour with changing seasons. Rarely lonely, Belinda receives visitors from a diverse array of ocean critters, including <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/snails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>snails</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crabs</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaStars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaStars</span></a>, & <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anemones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anemones</span></a>"</p>