OLDEST KNOWN ANCESTOR?

Bag-like sea creature was humans' oldest known ancestor

Posted: 30 Jan 2017 08:10 AM PST
Researchers have identified traces of what they believe is the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans -- a microscopic, bag-like sea creature, which lived about 540 million years ago.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on January 31, 2017 at 2:46pm

Cripes that is an ugly creature. now I can see where we get our good looks from. Lol. But no seriously really interesting article.

Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on January 31, 2017 at 7:08pm

It is very "symmetrical", a common feature of attractiveness for most animals.

Well, ok, I wouldn't want one of them in my eyeball or something.

Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on January 31, 2017 at 4:31pm

That article led me to other articles wrt ancient sea life & genetics. We're finding all kinds of relationships and evolution of structures and function now, that also illuminate later, more complex features and creatures.

YEC community, listen: You can't make this stuff up!

I wish we'd take some of the manned mission to Mars money and use it for studying our own oceans. Even Mars is mapped better than our oceans.

Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on January 31, 2017 at 5:15pm