There will be no more differences. No more men and women. No child and no adult. These hooks snag shrimplike crustaceans that happen to swim by. Within one day after capture, new tentacles envelope the victims, essentially burying them alive.
Digestion then begins.
This is the equivalent of finding a human with gills,' exclaims Michelle Kelley-Borge, a sponge expert at London's Natural History Museum. The sponge's only known relatives live on the ocean floor. Now, this seems perfectly logical to me. So much so that one might wonder why hasn't it occurred before. Or, perhaps not.