New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, there were a bunch of one-celled microbes, swimming, eating, reproducing, doing all the things that a one-cell ...

A study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on February 24, 2026, confirms that animals experience time at speeds dictated by their metabolic rates and ecological demands, with small, ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual ...