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Many sponges have internal skeletons of spongin and/or spicules made up of calcium carbonate or silicon dioxide.

All sponges are sessile aquatic animals, which means that they attach to an underwater surface and remain fixed in place.

They rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes.

Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems.There bodies are full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them.They are Diplobastic means their germ layer is divided in two layers that is ectoderm and endoderm.These are the members of the phylum Porifera.Significance: The study has opened the new vistas of study towards this phylum.The researchers hypothesize that the sponges are moving to find food or to disperse juveniles.Reason: No exact reason for their movement has been given yet.They lack muscles or other specialized organs that would help them get around.The larvae of the sea sponge are known to be mobile and the adults have generally been believed to be sessile, or immobile.It is found for the first time that sea sponges drifted and rolled across the seafloor in the northeast Pacific Ocean.The study found that sea sponges made limited movements by expanding and contracting their bodies in a laboratory setting.Finding: The study found the sea sponges were appeared to be crawling uphill and even on top of each other.

hentscheli, and Stelletta rhaphidiophora.

Species: The main species in the region were identified as Geodia parva, G.

The study has pushed and prodded the scientific thought into a new direction. A new study has upended the assumption that the sponges are immovable.