Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...

Scientists discovered chemical fossils in ancient rocks that suggest sea sponges were among the first animals to live on Earth.

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Chemical fossils are remnants of biomolecules from organisms long extinct but preserved in sediment over hundreds of millions ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

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The Grand Canyon went through multiple changes over the years, and the meteor strike was one of the biggest events, along ...

Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

Unpaid council tax, fraud by a builder, and misappropriation of school funds by a teacher were all rumbled by council teams ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...