Sneezing Sponges          



This is a photo from a video of a sponge sneezing. 
The reason this is so astounding is because sponges don't have brains!
Both humans and sponges have hairlike structures called Cilia that give them the ability to sneeze.
As the sponge filters water and takes the nutrients out, they start to build up waste minerals like sand and salt.
After this builds up, the sponge then expands and contracts, and "sneezes" the particles out. The pressure a
sponge undergoes during it's hours long sneeze phase is tremendously larger than the pressure that a human
diaphragm experiences in our millisecond sneeze phase.


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