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Sea Sponges: Pharmacies of the Sea

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A sea sponge underwater
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Sponges of the Sea

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a medicine bottle with an image of the ocean
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Medicines from the Sea

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Drugs From the Deep with Shirley Pomponi

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A screenshot from the video of colorful corals.
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Slow Life: Time-Lapse on the Coral Reef

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Tiny sponge spicules.
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Sparkling Sponge Spicules

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A crab sits on a coral with a sponge covering its head
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A Sponge Crab's Updo

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 Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a specimen of a fan sponge (Phakellia sp.) collected at a deep-sea coral study site off the coast of South Carolina.    
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Fan Sponge

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Cancer cells treated with discodermolide, a chemical from a sponge found on deep-sea coral reefs.
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Treated Cancer Cells

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How Many Nights of Hanukkah? A harp has its own place in holiday music, but we also think this sponge looks like a super-sized menorah! This newly-discovered carnivorous sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) was found using robotic submersibles operated by the
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Harp Sponge

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Yolanda Villacampa, Museum Specialist - Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Museum Specialist Yolanda Villacampa

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A white coral (Corallium sp.) and two vase sponges (left) grow on an Atlantic Ocean seamount.
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Balanus Seamount

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