Space Icarus The shallow waters of Hawaii's beach are occupied by an unknown creature that looks a bit like a sponge creature, and according to scientists at the NOAA U.S. National Marine Reserve, it belongs to animals, not plants, just like corals. According to the results of laboratory analysis, it is certain that this is a sponge animal, but it is different from all the breeds we know. In terms of species richness and diversity, sponges make up the largest group on the seafloor and have surpassed the corals that form reefs. These sponges are considered to be among the oldest creatures on Earth, and some experts believe they may be the ancestors of all complex creatures.
The researchers say most deep-sea organisms grow very slowly, and they need long periods of fixed territory to grow larger and larger. We don't know the true age of sponge animals because they don't have anything like rings that allows us to speculate about their ages. But we know that some sponge creatures that live in the deep sea can live for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, the oldest of which is 4500 years old.
This giant sponge animal was photographed by a long-range operated submersible, and the waters off the Hawaiian Islands are the world's largest marine conservation center, home to more than 7,000 species of marine life.
Now that this unknown deep-sea species has occupied a shallow area, NOAA experts are looking for corals and sponges, which appear in front of them like a folded carpet. It looked like someone was holding a carpet and spreading it out on a chair. In 1887, sponges were found in shallow waters off the western coast of Canada as the largest sponge animals in the world. Another large sponge animal was found in a deep sea and consisted of huge bone needles that could extend up to 3 meters long.
The appearance of such a large and ancient sponge animal suggests that it is entirely necessary to protect this sea. Although the team has not yet been able to accurately predict the age of the sponge, they found that the giant sponge in another shallow area has been alive for more than 2300 years.
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