Top 27 Best Deep Sea Organisms

[Raph's Girl]

http://blogs.discovery.com/deep_sea_...-best--10.html

#11 is up. I give ya....

Venus' Flower Basket....it's a majorly weird looking sponge...

And why is it called Venus' Flower Basket?

This sponge has some resident shrimp species that call it home. Shrimps in the genus Spongicola move into Euplectella sponges once they are ready to mate, and are trapped inside of the sponge for the rest of their lives. In Japan, it was common to give Euplectella as a wedding gift, as a symbol of the two shrimp being united (or imprisoned, for you cynics out there) for the rest of their lives. For this romantic reason, Euplectella is also called Venus’s Flower Basket.