Demosponge (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Demosponge

Caption

An underwater picture of the modern demosponge species Rhabdastrella globostellata, which make the same 26-mes steroids that the researchers found in ancient rocks.

Credit

Paco Cárdenas

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