WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Around a billion years ago, a ...

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – What was the first animal on Earth? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe they've finally answered that question. Based on new genetic tests, researchers ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Field locations in the Northwest Territories of Canada where fossils that may represent the earliest known animal life sponges that lived roughly 890 million years ago were found in mountainous ...

A newly discovered predatory “death-ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean hunts small prey with tiny hooks, revealing surprising deep-sea behaviour and hidden marine biodiversity.

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Recently found primitive sponge fossils from South Australia suggest that animals have been on Earth for at least 650 million years. This discovery pushes back the fossil record for animals by about ...

The theory of evolution shows that all of life stems from a single root and that we are related, more or less distantly, to every other living thing on Earth. Our closest ancestors, as Charles Darwin ...

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada's Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on Earth - sea sponges that inhabited ...