Boring Sponge (porifera)

     Greenish - yellow in color and growing only as large as the shell they live in, The Boring Sponge lives in calcium rich objects. Through a chemical process they "drill" tiny holes in shells. They are important because they enable calcium that is in solid form to be changed into a calcium solution. Which can then be used to build other structures

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