Current shapes the sponge, but the refuge provided by the sponge to the juvenile rockfish also provides a place to get out of the currents. Rockfish are lazy, and don't want to swim unnecessarily. #glasssponge

#ProtectOceans
#knowtheocean

Pencil sea urchin on top of a glass sponge on top of a demosponge (Verongiida)!
📷NOAA
#deepsea #MarineLife #seasponge #glasssponge #seaurchins

This glass sponge (cf. Lefroyella)was covered with yellow zoanthids and surrounded by a variety of colorful soft corals!
📷NOAA
#deepsea #MarineLife #seasponge #glasssponge #sealife

This painted yeti squat lobster is carrying off a piece of glass sponge.. Is it dinner, home decor, a gift?
Your guess is as good as ours.
📷NOAA
#deepsea #MarineLife #seasponge #glasssponge #squatlobster

Our first national broadcast! Moonless Oasis will air from sea to sea to sea this Saturday at 1pm EST on CBC TV.
#glasssponge #scuba #marinelife CBC Docs

What eats #glasssponge reefs. It rhymes with doodi-branch. #spongethursday

Hamish Tweed & Sherri Ferguson, MSc discuss the physiological issues that affect divers at great depths, in front of the Hyper/Hypobaric Chamber at Simon Fraser University. There is still a lot to learn about how we react to these extreme environments.
#glasssponge #scuba #yvr

More #deepsea #coral & #sponge samples from MARE ROV Beagle!!! #swiftia #trumpetsponge #glasssponge #plumarella #bubblegumparagorgia NOAA #bellshimada #USGS #NOAAFisheries

Cannot wait to see these specimens when they arrive #deepseanews Deep-Sea Species #porifera #glasssponge

The endless night. #GlassSponge #Abyss #smartexccz

'Sponge-on-sponge violence'. Demosponge Desmacella austini parasitizes #glasssponge reefs...turns them into zombie sponges? #spongethursday

This #glasssponge E/V Nautilus 😮😍🌊

Beautiful #GlassSponge collected by #PacificSeamounts2018 #SpongeThursday #spongesarecool

Did you know glass sponges are believed to be the oldest animals still living on Earth today! This #glasssponge was found in #PerthCanyon near #Rottnest almost 1km underwater, it was the first time this particular species was found in the Indian Ocean. bit.ly/2OuirPF

Beautiful #glasssponge and #yelloweye #rockfish for #SpongeThursday

Prepping Herc for the #glasssponge reef #livedive with #ONCabyss ...said to begin at 6:30! Watch at oceannetworks.ca

New activist group, funded by #Vancouver businessman Tony Allard, caught cheating. Several Vancouver media refuse to cover the #fakenews .

Allard video recorded not unique - similar video last year shows #glasssponge phenomena not unique to one area. bing.com/videos/search?…

More wonderful #Poriferans that will soon be arriving from Japan! #deepseanews Deep-Sea Species #glasssponge

Class had a great time learning about deep sea exploration with Dr Diva Amon ExploringByTheSeat great discussions after about sea life. #usdlearns #osterpride #ExploringByTheSeat #glasssponge

#ancient #GlassSponge is incredibly unique on the planet

1000’s of years to grow

Video footage demonstrates #FishFarm impacts

Am very tired of Fed/Prov Gov pretending impacts below the Fish Farms amount to nothing

Mounting Evidence vs Decades of Denial

#bcpoli #canpoli