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.

Sponge digestive system diversity and evolution: filter feeding to carnivory

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All Animals Evolved from Sponge Ancestors

Evolution just got turned upside down. Sorry sponges. - Big Think

What did the earliest animals look like?

Are All Sponges Spongy? · Frontiers for Young Minds

Sponge larvae: Your unlikely ancestors

Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework - ScienceDirect

Endosymbiosis, Choanoflagellates, and the Origin of Animal Life

The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Porifera Organismal Diversity

The morphologically simple sea sponge is the common ancestor of all animals: Study-Tech News , Firstpost

Marine Drugs, Free Full-Text

Are Sponges Our Great Ancestors? - BioTechniques