Despite lacking nerves, muscles or even brains, sea sponges have the ability to expel clumps of mucus from their bodies in a sneeze-like fashion. This behavior was long known to scientists, but ...

Achoo! Sneezing isn’t just for landlubbers. Researchers have determined that sea sponges, multicellular organisms that live on the ocean floor, “sneeze” mucus to clear waste from their feeding systems ...

A new study found evidence in timelapse videos that sea sponges — like humans — sneeze to get rid of mucus and other waste . Sea sponges are underwater creatures with canal systems that suck water in, ...

The next time you spot a sea sponge, say “gesundheit!” Some sponges regularly “sneeze” to clear debris from their porous bodies. It’s “like someone with a runny nose,” says team member Sally Leys, an ...

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A new study suggests that the expelled mucus from sponges could support biodiversity in coral reefs and other seafloor ecosystems. What lives under the sea and sneezes out mucus for fishes to eat?

Sneezing out mucus may be one of the oldest ways for organisms to get rid of unwanted waste. A group of researchers found that sponges, one of the oldest multicellular organisms in existence, 'sneeze' ...