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A lifetime studying and advocating for cetaceans: Interview with Paul Spong

Mongabay 09 Oct 2026
Paul Spong’s life has been entwined with whales for nearly six decades. In the 1960s, Spong, who hails from Aotearoa New Zealand, moved to the U.S ... But the aquarium, which didn’t renew Spong’s contract, held onto Skana until her death in 1980.
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In 2014, a ship carrying 32 million illegal cigarettes was sunk off Ireland; 12 years later, authorities observed it has been colonised by barnacles, sponges, sea squirts and fish

The Times of India 07 Oct 2026
Underwater footage has revealed that barnacles, sponges, sea squirts and fish are gathering on and around it.“What we were trying to do originally when we said we were going to sink this artificial reef ... “I could see ... .
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In 1987, ancient glass sponge reefs were found alive off Canada's Pacific coast in B.C.'s Hecate Strait after being thought extinct for 40 million years; they survive today in three sounds

The Times of India 06 Oct 2026
Unlike the soft-bodied sponges familiar from shallow waters, these deep-sea animals create rigid, glass-like structures.Some species are capable of building reefs. New generations of sponges settle on ...
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Scientists found at least 10 likely new species of bizarre branching worms inside sea sponges; one was hiding in a museum specimen collected in Japan in 1914

The Times of India 05 Oct 2026
These unusual worms live inside sea sponges and have a distinctive body, with one head connected to a tree-like network of branches ... The animals live in symbiosis with sponges and can spread through their host using this unusual body structure.
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Sea sponges serve as inspiration for strong, lightweight metamaterials

New Atlas 02 Oct 2026
As one of nature’s most spectacular structures, Venus’ flower basket glass sponges can live thousands of years more than 2 km (3,300 ft) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
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Secretary drowned in bath at home with plughole blocked by sponge

Daily Record 29 Sep 2026
Natasha Margaret Keryk drowned in the bath at her Darwen home on 7 October 2024, an inquest at Blackburn Town Hall heard ... .
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Tragedy as woman, 36, drowns in bath with sponge found blocking plughole

The Mirror 29 Sep 2026
Natasha Keryk, 36, of Lynwood Avenue, Darwen in Lancashire, drowned in a bath where a sponge was found to have been blocking the plughole ... .
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Mum, 36, tragically drowned in bath at home after ‘sponge blocked plughole’

The Sun 29 Sep 2026
A MUM tragically drowned in the bath after a sponge blocked the ...
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