The fossils are more than 350 million years older than the next-oldest sponge fossils. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. That sea ...

The federal government mostly leaves policy about the housing and treatment of farm animals to the states, but there is increasing interest in a more active federal role, perhaps through the next farm ...

Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years or more, long before the first plants took to land. Their simplicity has led scientists to suggest ...

Max Telford receives funding from BBSRC. Paschalia Kapli receives funding from BBSRC. The theory of evolution shows that all of life stems from a single root and that we are related, more or less ...

For more than a century, biologists have wondered what the earliest animals were like when they first arose in the ancient oceans over half a billion years ago. Searching among today's most ...