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Humans Have Surprising Similarities to Strange Creatures From 550 Million Years Ago – ScienceAlert

From what little we know of them, they seem so different. Mysterious creatures that lived in the ocean half a billion years ago – headless, limbless things, seemingly…

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From what little we know of them, they seem so different. Mysterious creatures that lived in the ocean half a billion years ago headless, limbless things, seemingly alien to us in all respects.
Except they weren’t, new research suggests. In fact, the Ediacaran biota a collection of ancient oceanic life-forms that dwelled on Earth between 570 to 539 million years ago would have shared a number of genetic similarities with modern metazoans (multicellular animals) including humans, scientists say.

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