This glass sponge has been living in the South China Sea for about 11,000 years. Discovered by molecular biologist Werner Muller from the University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, and a team of researchers, the Monorhaphis chuni sponge "is the oldest living animal, having evolved 700 million years ago," says Muller.
By: Madhumita Venkataramanan, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/02/start/oldest-animal-doubles-as-a-thermometer
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