Category Archives: carnivore
Pumas on the edge of town: how human-puma interaction may change the food web
Posted by California, carnivore, catamount, conservation, cougar, ecology, featured, food webs, guest post, halloween, human interaction, mountain lion, prey, puma, Twitter Chat, urban ecology, Uta Frith
inPLOS ONE’s Spookiest Images of 2014
As we take a look back at research articles published so far in PLOS ONE in 2014, we realize we have no shortage of images to terrify our readers, or at least sufficiently creep them out long enough to last through … Continue reading
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inMeet the Ping-pong Tree Sponge
The aptly named Ping-pong tree sponge (Chondrocladia lampadiglobus) is a carnivorous sponge. At first glance, you may think “I want that mid-century modern lamp” or “that sponge is adorable”, but the Ping-pong tree sponge is a stone-cold carnivorous killer. Those ping-pong ball looking things are covered in tiny spicules which the sponge uses to catch tiny crustaceans.
Check out another sponge in the same genus-the harp sponge (Chondrocladia lyra).
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