Signs point to sponges as earliest animal life
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 14:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Our earliest animal ancestors, it appears, were sponges. New evidence found by researchers at MIT, UC Riverside and other institutions shows these earliest sponges may predate the Ediacarian period by as much as 80 million years.
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