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The Oldest Animals: Comb Jellyfishes, Not Sponges This new finding has come like a shock: the world's most primitive multicellular animals still living are not the sponges, but a more complex animal. The research carried out at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the journal "Nature" revealed that the comb jellyfish, which has tissues and a n... 11 April 2008 04:36 GMT The Oldest Sex The phrase "sex is one of the oldest professions" has got a scientific proof. A recent research published in the journal "Science" describes the oldest known animal "caught in the act." This ancient sexual encounter occurred amongst 565-Ma-old tubular invertebrates called Funisia dorothea.Funisia fossils were found i... 3 April 2008 02:52 GMT The Basis of Our Brain Found in Sponges Sponges are the oldest multicellular animals with living representatives.They are made just of two cell layers that form a tube, living fixed on the substrate and the only movement they make is closing or opening their pores through which food, waste and gases enter or go. Being so simple, they have no neurons or syn... 6 June 2007 05:58 GMT