What was the first animal on the Earth and it’s not what you think!

Scientists are debating the Earth's first creature, with evidence pointing to simple, sponge-like organisms emerging around ...

Ancient Sponges May Be Earth’s First Animals, New MIT Evidence Shows

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...
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Sea sponges may have been Earth’s first living creatures

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Discovery reveals human ancestors somehow sailed Earth's oceans over 1 million years ago

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...
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The 10 Animals With the Highest Populations on the Planet

Our planet is brimming with life, and the diversity of animal species on Earth is staggering. Over 2.1 million animal species have been described, but zoologists estimate that millions more have yet ...
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Earth’s first animal revealed — and it’s not what you think

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of life’s origins, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found new evidence suggesting that the first animals on Earth were ...