How One of the Oldest Animals in the World Constantly Rearranges Their Insides | Alien Ocean

[@OctopusLady]

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[@melo.4489]

The fact sponges can actually rearrange their whole bodies whilst still functioning makes me wonder whether this was another wonderful bit of marine biology Hillenburg stealthily and casually introduced into SpongeBob gags or just a coincidence. (EDIT: Just a couple seconds later the video uses SpongeBob as a visual representation of fragmentation XD)

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So when he pull his arm it’s not just a cartoon gag it’s actually fact that sea sponge can do

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I would swap my left and right eyes around, just to see how my brain would cope with that.

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That's super interesting actually!!

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Imagine not looking down to tie your shoes but instead simply rearrange your eyes completely.

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Swap your arms and legs to complete the set!

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[@queenvagabond8787]

Simplicity, flexibility and durability have a big part to play, I'm sure. Also low energy requirements. We might be killing off corals via exponential climate change, but there is some evidence to suggest Sponges are actually pretty tolerant to low oxygen, high temperature environments. I suspect they will outlive us in the fossil record.

[@takumi2023]

@@queenvagabond8787 i agree with you. while some sponge are dying off not everything will and eventually it will come back since convergent evolution is a thing. they'll just evolve to it again.

[@firefighter4443]

Right? If a sponge evolved the ability to take over and convert another organism into itself, then we almost have the flood from Halo. Just missing locomotion.

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@@firefighter4443 Considering their polymorphic nature, sponges also remind me of the Thing.

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If I could rearrange my body like sponges do, I’d make myself a few inches taller, much thinner, repair all the damage that injuries have done to my body, and hopefully get rid of the chronic pain and fatigue.

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Sponges are so old... The dead sea was just sick when they were born.

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Imagining Sponges as war rigs is a mental picture I don't think I could have ever come up with on my own.

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I think you explained the surface area to volume issue very well... short, swift, and on point... the definition of nailing it! lol

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I would probably make my knees go backwards, just for a laugh. Or change my fat distribution so wildly that I'd look really weird, like putting my stomach fat in my knees.

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[@aramisdagaz9]

This video is reminding me of my 5th grade science class, where we spent the whole year going through all of the different kingdoms and other categories of life. I distinctly remember sponges because that was the first group of animals we discussed. I'm glad at least one of my elementary school science classes did that, it was very foundational. And who knew that sponges were so interesting?! Quite adaptable little critters, aren't they? I have a new idea for a D&D monster now.

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Creatures, like axolotl‘s, can regenerate their limbs by turning the cells near the wound into stem cells, and have those stem cells reform the Lost part of the limb

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This explains so much of my favorite childhood cartoon character

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[@herbertkeithmiller]

Great episode The only thing I knew about sponges was that if you pass them through a fine mesh You wind up with a whole bunch of little bitty sponges. So the rearranging of the internal structure was another amazing fact about these wonderful animals.

[@bumpty9830]

Fascinating! Another "advantage" (if that's the right word) of having cells that move around fairly freely is that it's closer to being a colony of single cell organisms. If you're hoping to innovate multicellular life, then gluing your cells together is just one more feature that has to evolve.

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How would I rearrange my insides? Hear me out on this. I know this is totally left field and completely out of character, but... werewolf.

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"This sponge constantly gets their insides rearranged" *everything reminds me of her*

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