After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

When thinking about the ancient animals of Earth, you likely picture fish, birds, and dinosaurs. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the ...

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 ...

Monorhaphis chuni is a deep-sea sponge that creates giant basal spicules (GBS) that can reach up to 3 meters in length and 10 millimeters in diameter. These spicules are the largest biogenic silica ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are ...