Sponges May Have Breathed Life into Ancient Oceans
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 15:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
You may owe your life to the lowly sea sponge. Flourishing in extreme, deep-ocean environments hundreds of millions of years ago, sponges may have helped produce the oxygen requisite for the explosion of more complex life forms on Earth, a new study says.