chuni specimen’s skeleton. The sponge was already pretty impressive at over 2 meters (6.6 feet) long and 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) thick, but when they looked at the fine silicon dioxide ...

which forms a squid's skeleton. When deployed in water, the sponge was found to remove between 98 and 99.8 per cent of microplastics, and the researchers believe the material's low cost and simple ...