A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...
Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...
After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...
Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...
Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...
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 ...
Molecular clocks, which use the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce how long ago two species diverged, and phylogenetics (the evolutionary relationships between species) can tell us when sea ...
Studies the life cycles of sponges and coelenterates, the simplest multicellular animals. Describes the cell specialization, sexual and asexual reproduction and other characteristics of sponges, ...
Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for ...
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