Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic ...

Do you ever wonder what the first animal on earth looked like? What did they do? How did they live? Join Stefan Chin for a ...

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 ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

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