56K views · 299 reactions | Who lives on some coral under the sea? A real life SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star. A NOAA excursion off the New England coast earlier this week found a yellow sponge and pink starfish side-by-side on the ocean floor. | CBS News | Facebook

Well, we didn’t find them under a pineapple in the sea, but we did spot a “real-life” SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star while exploring at a depth of 1,885 meters (about 1.2 miles) on Retriever Seamount, within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, during the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition. Scientists suggest that IRL, these two might not be BFFs: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex2104/features/spongebob/spongebob.html | NOAA Ocean