A new kind of sea sponge found in Norfolk, England, has been named by a nine-year-old girl after a competition for local schools.

在英国诺福克郡发现的一种新海绵，经过当地学校的竞争，被一个9岁的女孩命名。

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Photo Gallery: Marine Marvels The warts of a frogfish blend in with the bumpy texture of a sea sponge as it awaits unsuspecting prey in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.

奇特的海生物图片画廊。这疣的琵琶鱼融入颠簸的质地海绵，因为它正在等待不知情的猎物在蓝碧海峡，印度尼西亚。

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He may not be so good at catching Frisbees9 or fetching slippers, but Gary is the best pet an invertebrate10 sea sponge with square pants could possibly ask for, and thats all that matters.

也许他并不擅长接住飞盘或是帮主人取拖鞋，但加里绝对是穿着方形裤子的无脊椎海绵能找到的最好宠物，而这才是最重要的。

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The Venus flower basket, for example, a kind of deep-sea sponge, has spiny skeletal outgrowths that are remarkably similar, both in appearance and optical properties, to commercial optical fibres, notes Joanna Aizenberg, a researcher at Lucent Technology's Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.

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It involves learning where sponges grow, picking the right one, prying an intact sponge from the sea bottom, and using it on their noses to root around the right areas to find fish concealed in the sand.

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The plastic also acts as a chemical sponge absorbing some of the worst pollutants in the sea and increasing its toxicity when swallowed.

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