Sea sponge

We all have our own personal hygiene routines. Some of them are elaborate daily rituals, involving an array of carefully-selected and meticulously applied ...

The fact that some sponges "sneeze" much as humans do is fascinating, but their role in their ecosystem is very important. In the Caribbean lives Aplysina archeri, a species of tube sponge. These can be very delicate indeed, and so the sponges have developed a way to not only filter sustenance in, but filter any waste from the water back out. [Current Biology](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01118-6)), this species ... They were believed to be plants until the 1750s and 1760s, the outlet goes on, lacking many of the characteristics that seem to define most creatures on the planet, such as internal organs. Huge groups, or grounds, of them can reportedly "filter hundreds of liters of water." [Nature Communications](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28129-7) published the paper "Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life." What we should also do, however, is consider the case of the humble sea sponge. At the same time, though, they have the starfish-like ability to regenerate when damaged, on a scale that many fellow members of the animal kingdom are surely envious of. Attitudes differ, and opinions on the effects of bathing more or less often do too. Others involve a quick squirt of shower gel and 10 minutes under the warm, soothing water. In China, around 50% of people reportedly shower or bathe two times each week, while 80% of people in Australia do so daily.