Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

Sponges are among earth’s most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

An "extraordinary" species of fossil sponge dating back 315 million years has been discovered near the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. The fossil sponge, named Cyathophycus balori, measures 50cm and ...

Prof. YUAN Xunlai from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team have discovered a late Ediacaran crown-group sponge, Helicolocellus, from the ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

Sponges are among earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as ...

Sponges may have lived in oceans up to 890 million years ago, a study that identifies sponge-like structures within ancient reefs has suggested. If verified, the findings could represent the earliest ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Around a billion years ago, a ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

Sponges are among earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...