{"id":23078,"date":"2025-11-28T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/ancient-sponges-may-be-earths-first-animals-new-mit-evidence-shows-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:05:52","slug":"ancient-sponges-may-be-earths-first-animals-new-mit-evidence-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/ancient-sponges-may-be-earths-first-animals-new-mit-evidence-shows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Sponges May Be Earth\u2019s First Animals, New MIT Evidence Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ancient-sponges-may-be-earths-first-animals-new-mit-evidence-shows\/\" title=\"Ancient Sponges May Be Earth\u2019s First Animals, New MIT Evidence Shows\"><\/a>MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today\u2019s demosponges. A team of geochemists at MIT has uncovered compelling signs in ancient rocks that some of Earth\u2019s earliest animals may have been the predecessors of today\u2019s sea sponges. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today\u2019s demosponges. A team of geochemists at MIT has uncovered compelling signs in ancient rocks that some of Earth\u2019s earliest animals may have been the predecessors of today\u2019s sea sponges. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/ancient-sponges-may-be-earths-first-animals-new-mit-evidence-shows-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient Sponges May Be Earth\u2019s First Animals, New MIT Evidence Shows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}