Tag: Ancestor

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Sea sponges are ancestors of all animals

London: In what could put an end to a long-standing row over animal evolution, a new research has determined that it is the morphologically simple sponges, which are the common ancestors of all animals and not the anatomically complex comb jellies. Scientists have over the years tried to solve the longstanding question of whether sponges […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Last ancestor of humans small like gibbons: Study

London: Researchers have found that the last common ancestor of apes and humans was likely small, probably weighing about 12 pounds — about the size of a gibbon. The findings challenged the earlier suggestions that the last common ancestor was similar to modern chimpanzees in both size and appearance. “Body size directly affects how an […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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