Scientists zero in on Earth's original animal

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 09:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Sea sponges have been thought by some scientists to be the most primitive living animals, the closest living things to approximate Earth's original animal, down at the base of the tree of life for the animal kingdom.

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