Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

Perhaps the mysteries of the disappearing worm fossils and the missing ... The smoking gun was that the sponges carried the same nitrogen and carbon isotopes as the worm tubes they sat upon.

Scientists have created a new sponge-type material that absorbs carbon dioxide ... the potential to bridge the gap between the use of fossil fuels and new energy sources such as hydrogen, and ...

This distinctive skeletal composition suggests that early sponges had the genetic capacity to employ diverse biomineralization strategies. Fossil evidence indicates that Lophiostroma leizunia formed ...

Scientists predict that sponges—among the most basic animals—arose a few hundred million years before the occurrence of the oldest confirmed fossil specimens, which date to about 500 million years ago ...

The ocean is a vast natural sponge for carbon dioxide ... Compared with all of the carbon emissions that result from burning fossil fuels globally (or even a single industrialized nation ...

Chinese and South Korean researchers jointly discovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge fossil dating back 480 million years called Lophiostroma leizunia in Yichang, Central ...

This distinctive skeletal composition suggests that early sponges had the genetic capacity to employ diverse biomineralization strategies. Fossil evidence indicates that Lophiostroma leizunia ...