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Super Sea Sponges Are Helping to Clean Our Oceans!

Thursday 3 September 2026 Newsround (BBC)
Super Sea Sponges Are Helping to Clean Our Oceans!

Photo: Andrés Dallimonti / Unsplash

These amazing underwater creatures can act like giant natural vacuum cleaners by soaking up dirty water and filtering out tiny bits of plastic. Even though they do not have brains, sea sponges are incredibly smart at gobbling up pollution and leaving the water sparkly clean. Would you ever guess that a squishy sea animal could be one of our planet's greatest eco-superheroes?
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