Experts think they may have uncovered what the first ever animal on Earth looked like after ancient chemical signals were found. For as long as scientists have understood evolution, the debate over ...
Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...
A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...
A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...