Amazing Neptune’s Cup Sponge Rediscovered in Singapore

More than 100 years after it was last seen, the giant Neptune’s cup sponge ( Cliona patera ) has been rediscovered off the coast of southern Singapore. First discovered in 1822, the sponges grew so large a meter or more in both height and diameter that their cup-like structures were sometimes used as tubs for babies. But their size made them valuable to collectors around the world and they were overharvested until they disappeared from Singapore in the 1870s

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Amazing Neptune’s Cup Sponge Rediscovered in Singapore