Possible ancestor of sponges found

An exquisitely preserved 600-million-year-old fossil from China has cell types and a shape resembling sponges, thought to be among the first multicellular animals to evolve.

Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR rese

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Possible ancestor of sponges found

Evolution of mechanisms controlling epithelial morphogenesis across animals: new insights from dissociation-reaggregation experiments in the sponge Oscarella lobularis, BMC Ecology and Evolution

Who came first, sponges or comb jellies?

Humans and sponges share gene regulation mechanisms

Early animal evolution: a morphologist's view

April 4, 2015

In Choanoflagellates, Clues to the Animal Kingdom's Birth - The New York Times