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Earth’s First Sponges Were Soft, Not Spiky, Study Finds

Vaasspons (xestospongia testudinaria)

If you imagine the earliest animals on Earth, you might picture something simple but sturdy. Maybe a sponge-like creature anchored to the sea floor, reinforced with tiny glass needles. That image turns out to be wrong. According to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Bristol, the first sponges were soft-bodied […]

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