Sponges: Bathroom beasties to medical miracles
Video presented by Clare Valentine
What's the oldest form of multi-cellular animal still living, one that can draw a swimming pool of water through its tissues every hour? Discover there's more to a sponge than the one you find in your bathroom.
- Presented by: Clare Valentine
- Date: 27 January 2003
- Duration: 30:23
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