• The Porifera page at UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology-Two great color images, general information, links to "The Cambrian Explosion", sponges in the fossil record, life history & ecology, and more on morphology.

 
• Sponge skeletons-Spicules is what you'll see up close and personal on this page with three excellent scanning electron microscope images. Click on the image to make it fill the screen.

 

 

• Evolution & the History of Life course home page
• Lab 5: Colonial Invertebrates, part I

Last updated on February 24, 1997-jlc.