Tokyo: Sponges build their skeletons in away that resembles the construction of human-made buildings - but without the architectural plans, a new study has found. "We were surprised to find that ...

Sponges build their skeletons in a completely different way than other animals do, researchers have found. In fact, the building process looks a lot like the construction of human-made buildings, ...

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences found inspiration in the architecture of deep-sea marine sponges’ skeletal systems when seeking to build sturdier load-bearing structures ...

An anatomical review of the sponges shows they contain rods, named strongyloxea spicules, which provide robustness to the sponges and help them to resist the high pressure of water at the bottom of ...

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Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 17 have found that sponges build their skeletons in a completely different way than other animals do. In fact, the building ...

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences found inspiration in the architecture of deep-sea marine sponges’ skeletal systems when seeking to build sturdier load-bearing structures ...