Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/carnivorous-death-ball-sponge-among-new-species-found-in-depths-of-southern-ocean
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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 24 pts · 307d
More on balls:
wiki/Chondrocladia
... this pic is from 2002:

2006:

Random yt about ping-pong trees:
youtube.com/racXyXF71C4
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 307d
Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion has an NPC that looks like these little guys in the Deepsea Metro!
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 307d
Fucking life, man
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 307d
Article does not tell you what a death ball does
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 307d
It does though.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 307d
I don't know how I missed that
snooggums@piefed.world · 26 pts · 307d
The hooks are pretty tiny, easy to miss.
Robaque@feddit.it · 10 pts · 307d
It sponges around eating meat n stuff
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 307d
SCIENCE
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 307d
Death. It does death.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 307d
Spongebob Roundpants is gonna fuck you up!
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 307d
I read "Coronavirus 'death ball' ..."
sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 307d
Thanks, I hate it
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 307d
Happy Halloween!
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 307d
* Interested Darth Vader noises*
Or is it a scuba diver? Hard to tell.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 307d
First there is the rise of fascists and dictators and we're on the brink of world war 3 and now there's a carnivorous death ball sponge?
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d
Death ball sound like a shitty 90s toy
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 1 pts · 307d
Forbidden Fushigi
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 307d
Deep sea deathticle
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
Fuck it, I'm ready, bring on the Death Balls