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 ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

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 ...

Humans may count themselves lucky to reach 100, but some creatures have lifespans that make centuries look like a weekend. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The species were found exclusively “living in association with deep-sea glass sponges on seamounts in the northwest Pacific,” ...

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 ...

The plant-covered animal caught the attention of scuba diving ... The two “massive” sea sponges were found “burrowing” into the seafloor under about 65 feet and about 100 feet of water ...

Still, the sea sponge “is a very sensitive and coordinated animal,” researcher Sally Leys told The Guardian, “despite not having all the characteristics that you’ve grown up to understand ...