For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...
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Ancient sea sponges in 541-million-year-old fossils could be Earth’s first animals even before dinosaurs
For decades, scientists have debated which animals first appeared on Earth and set the stage for the evolution of complex life. A recent study by MIT geochemists offers compelling evidence that the ...
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