Then he wondered whether they were sea sponges of some sort.

然后他想知道它们是不是某种海绵。

It ranges from things like insects to clams to sea sponges to worms.

它的范围从昆虫到蛤蜊，从海绵到蠕虫。

We've got monogrammed bath soaps, natural honeycomb sea sponge...uh, gold-dusted organic Peruvian cacao nibs, and, of course, Janimals, janimals wearable stuffed animals.

肥皂上印了你们名字的缩写，天然蜂窝海绵有机秘鲁可可豆，当然还有可爱动物睡衣。

Okay, not quite like that, but sea sponges are a kind of organism still in existence today whose close relatives are a good candidate for early animals.

虽然并不完全像那样，但海绵是一种至今仍存在的生物，它们的近亲是早期动物的良好候选者。

There are sea sponges in Antarctica that typically grow very slowly, but can also grow quickly and explode their populations when the environment is just right.

南极洲的海海绵通常生长非常缓慢，但也可以快速生长并在环境恰到好处时爆发数量。

So we see this in things like some sea sponges, we see this in some flatworms, and we see it in other animals closely related to coralslike sea anemones and jellyfish.

所以我们在一些海海绵之类的东西中看到了这一点，在一些扁虫中看到了这一点， 在其他与珊瑚密切相关的动物中也看到了这一点， 比如海葵和水母。