The deep-sea Venus flower basket sponge can filter ... the Venus flower basket sponge may be able to draw in nutrients passively, without any active pumping mechanism," said Maurizio Porfiri ...

drawing both amateur and expert adventurers, and is gaining global attention this year as a new Olympic event. (Read about the 1936 Popular Olympics, a boycott of fascism and Hitler.) Sea sponge ...

This allows it to passively draw water upwards through its porous ... in which it revealed it had created a first-ever simulation of the deep-sea sponge and how it responds to and influences ...