3D-Models Show That 540-Million-Year Old Bag-Like Creature Is Not Earliest Human Ancestor - Forbes

8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by David Bressan
by David Bressan
An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.
Life-like reconstruction of Saccorhytus. Donoghue/Nature In 2017, Chineses scientists announced the discovery of the 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus fossil, believed to be the earliest known deute… [+3416 chars]
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