It's a beautiful chronoid there attached to the sponge
skeleton. Look at that. Is that sponge both alive and dead?
Exactly. So it's a zombie sponge! Yes oh zombie sponge.
That's a new one. So it's actually quite interesting
because it seems that a sponge colonized the internal part of
a dead skeleton. Look at that.
How do you know that it's like a new sponge that's colonized
an old sponge versus a dying sponge? Because you can see
that it still has like the typical wall as you can see
there and on the outside you see that it's a dead skeleton.
So my guess is that this was another Euplectella that was
living there. And it died, it left the skeleton behind and
for some reason the larvae of the Euplectella just found that
to be a very good place to settle and grow. And now it has
extra protection. That's really cool. Yeah it's very
interesting.