New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

Ever wonder what the very first animal on Earth was? 🐾 Scientists believe they’ve finally figured it out, and it’s not what you’d expect! It wasn’t a dinosaur or a giant sea creature—it was a simple, ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

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A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...