spiculum

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Today, nearly all sponges have mineralized spicules, which might suggest that skeletons played a key role in their early success.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

However, scientists have not found spicules in older rocks.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

He saw spicules of coalesced matter — “radiobes,” as he called them — that resembled, to his eyes, the most primeval forms of life.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021

A scarred rocky sphere the size of an orange had split to reveal an almost perfectly circular face, the other half shattered into spicules by the impact.

From Nature • Aug. 29, 2017

Spiders started building new webs in abandoned huts; dust started to sift in from unpatched roofs in golden spicules.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury