WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.263 --> 00:00:11.243 It's a beautiful chronoid there attached to the sponge 2 00:00:11.243 --> 00:00:19.923 skeleton. Look at that. Is that sponge both alive and dead? 3 00:00:19.923 --> 00:00:23.963 Exactly. So it's a zombie sponge! Yes oh zombie sponge. 4 00:00:23.963 --> 00:00:27.883 That's a new one. So it's actually quite interesting 5 00:00:27.883 --> 00:00:32.363 because it seems that a sponge colonized the internal part of 6 00:00:32.363 --> 00:00:36.243 a dead skeleton. Look at that. 7 00:00:38.263 --> 00:00:41.803 How do you know that it's like a new sponge that's colonized 8 00:00:41.803 --> 00:00:45.643 an old sponge versus a dying sponge? Because you can see 9 00:00:45.643 --> 00:00:48.883 that it still has like the typical wall as you can see 10 00:00:48.883 --> 00:00:52.363 there and on the outside you see that it's a dead skeleton. 11 00:00:52.363 --> 00:00:55.883 So my guess is that this was another Euplectella that was 12 00:00:55.883 --> 00:00:59.083 living there. And it died, it left the skeleton behind and 13 00:00:59.083 --> 00:01:03.483 for some reason the larvae of the Euplectella just found that 14 00:01:03.483 --> 00:01:07.203 to be a very good place to settle and grow. And now it has 15 00:01:07.203 --> 00:01:10.563 extra protection. That's really cool. Yeah it's very 16 00:01:10.563 --> 00:01:13.163 interesting.