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This Tree of Life Web Project about sponges includes a diagram of a sponge. It discusses what sponges are made of, where they live, and how they adapt to the environment.
A BBC Wildlife Video. Scientists venture down the Cayman wall and encounter sponges. They spend time describing the sponges and explaining why sponges do not need sunlight to live.
This website describes what rotifers are and where they can be found. It discusses what they eat and that they are filter feeders. It has pictures and shows what each part of the rotifer is. It also discusses reproduction in rotifers.
This video gives basic information about rotifers including classification and general anatomy of rotifers. It continues to describe how rotifers move and gain nutrition.
A University of Michigan Museum of Zoology website. This website discusses a wide variety of information about Bryozoans including diversity of Bryozoans, where they can be found, reproduction, feeding, development, and the positive and negative impacts on humans. This website is a bit technical and has a lot of vocabulary that may need to be explained.
This is a Science Learning Hub video. Associate Professor Abby Smith discusses bryozoans. She explains why some bryozoans live in colonies and what that means. She explains why bryozoan colonies are described as thickets and not reefs like corals. She also explains where people may have seen a bryozoan.