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Lyre Sponge or Harp Sponge (Chondrocladia lyra), family Cladorhizidae, order Poecilosclerida, class Demospongiae

  • Found at depths of 800–11,500 ft (3,300–3,500 m), off the coast of northern California, at the Escanaba Ridge and the Monterey Canyon.
  • Carnivorous.

The harp sponge: an extraordinary new species of carnivorous sponge

Oct. 31st, 2012

In this video we describe a new species of carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lyra from the deep-sea off California. C. lyra is called the harp sponge because its basic structure, called a vane, is shaped like a harp or lyre. Each vane consists of a horizontal branch supporting several parallel, vertical branches. Clinging with root-like "rhizoids" to the soft, muddy sediment, the harp sponge captures tiny animals that are swept into its branches by deep-sea currents. Typically, sponges feed by straining bacteria and bits of organic material from the seawater they filter through their bodies. However, carnivorous harp sponges snare their prey—tiny crustaceans—with barbed hooks that cover the sponge's branching limbs. Once the harp sponge has its prey in its clutches, it envelops the animal in a thin membrane, and then slowly begins to digest it. The harp sponge's unusual shape and exposure to currents may also help it to reproduce more effectively. The swollen balls at the tip of the sponge's upright branches produce packets of sperm. These sperm packets are released into passing currents and are captured on the branches of other nearby sponges. The sperm then works its way from the packets into the host sponge to fertilize its eggs. As the fertilized eggs mature, these contact sites swell up, forming bulges part way up the host sponge's branches (see photo).

via: MBARI

Read the original paper here:

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

I'd just like to say this is beautifully typeset with excellent use of spacing and hyphens. However I find it a little funny that I can tell the newspaper bought their type from multiple foundries, as the shoulder of a few of the letters is slightly shorter than the rest. If you need to know what I'm talking about, look at the "less" in the bottom righthand corner. The second "s" is slightly lower on the page than its neighbor. It's the same font, and typeface, but produced by a different type foundry. (It could also be the same type foundry at a different time, or a different machine at the foundry, etc.) You can also spot this phenomenon in the "te" of "peni-tentiary" and the "t" of "If the eastern."

My guess is that they had an original order of quite a lot of type, and then over the years as the type wore out and they began to need replacements, got a second, smaller order which was made to different specifications.

Here's a helpful diagram from wikipedia:

(Yes I forgot the term for the shoulder of a piece of type and had to look it up.)

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Good news! Elementary schoolers of the modern day still believe this is part of vanilla minecraft. I have borne firsthand witness to these discussions.

the folkloric gate to heaven requires journeying to hell to get its building material

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oh good i needed a warmup piece

buddy not to be a ridiculous nerd about it but you realize that seeking out dark magic users to kill them and pry potion ingredients out of their dead, cold hands isn't exactly non-hellish behavior? maybe the journey to hell is internal idk your playstyle

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