Ancient sponges or just algae? New research overturns chemical evidence for the earliest animals
- Written by Lennart van Maldegem, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Ilya Bobrovskiy, Author providedSponges are the simplest of animals, and they may stand at the root of all complex animal life on Earth, including us humans. Scientists study the evolution of the earliest sponges, hundreds of millions of years ago, to learn about the conditions that led life to develop from single-celled amoeba-like creatures to...





