Earliest Animals Were Sea Sponges, Fossils Hint

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 23:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Fossil steroids show that sponges were thriving about a hundred million years before the evolutionary growth spurt known as the Cambrian explosion, a new study says.

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