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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