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Show Sponges Like Other Animals Strange though it sounds, sponges live and prow and die just like any other animals. And because they're .salt-water animals, the fresh water was their finish, observes the Washington Wash-ington Post. Actually, sponges a3 we know them aren't sponges but the skeletons of sponges. The sponge is a collection of tiny one-celled one-celled creatures who get together and build the skeleton. These curious cu-rious animals first attracted the attention at-tention of the Greeks many years ago. Grecian soldiers wore metal helmets and shin guards and cursed at the blisters they raised. Then someone dove into the Mediterranean, Mediterran-ean, came up with a sponge and discovered it would make a good pad. |