Yes, a sponge. Or more specifically, a sea sponge. Sea sponges, a kind of aquatic animal found in oceans and some lakes, may look blobbish. They may live in the shadows of more picturesque corals ...

Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's ... Their simplicity has led scientists to suggest sponges were the earliest animals to arise on our planet. But exactly when that happened ...

Scientists have long thought the humble sea sponge, an animal that feeds by filtering water through itself, forms the oldest group of animals on earth. But a new study claims that the comb jelly ...

At first glance, the simple sea sponge is no creature of mystery ... fills in the evolutionary family tree of one of the earliest animals, explaining its apparent absence in older rocks and ...

Belinda the sea sponge has a lot going on for an animal that can't go anywhere. Canadian researchers have used four years of time-lapse footage from the sea floor of British Columbia to paint ...

Deep, deep in geologic time, some 600 million or 700 million years ago, the very first animals evolved on Earth. Their closest relatives that still live today include sponges, sea anemones and ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

However, a new study shows how one aquatic animal, in its own little way, sneezes to get rid of junk that clogs up their internal filter system—sea sponges. Sea sponges are some of the oldest ...

You might be tempted to say “gesundheit,” but the sea creature’s snot helps feed ... and dates back to some of the first multicellular animals: sponges. The sponge has been around for ...

Scientists have interpreted Brooksella as various kinds of sea animals ... puffed pastry that is unusual for soft-squishy animals like a sponge," said University of Georgia paleontologist Sally ...

Sponges would make sense as the oldest animal. They are simple creatures ... populations in the United States and Canada. Ronan the Sea Lion Keeps the Beat: As she has aged, the pinniped ...

B eneath the ocean's surface, simple marine animals called sea sponges grow delicate glass skeletons that are as intricate as they are strong. These natural structures are made of a material ...