Posted on 01/30/2017 6:30:05 PM PST by plain talk
They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved". The microscopic sea animal is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and - eventually - to humans.
The research team says that Saccorhytus is the most primitive example of a category of animals called "deuterostomes" which are common ancestors of a broad range of species, including vertebrates (backboned animals).
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Looks more like an early prototype of a Dalek.
Looks like Helen Thomas.
if you listen really carefully you can hear it say: “Get off my lawn!”
Reminds me of my ex-wife!
Its a minion.. a throwback in the Simpsons genepool,, No, Its an early Carville..
CHRISTIANS, it is high time to celebrate BIBLICAL CREATION.
http://biblehub.com/childrens/The_Story_of_Creation.htm
Above is a closer ancestor, Nickname: Lucy's species Where Lived: Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania) When Lived: Between about 3.85 and 2.95 million years ago. Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human speciespaleoanthropologists have uncovered remains from more than 300 individuals! Found between 3.85 and 2.95 million years ago in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), this species survived for more than 900,000 years, which is over four times as long as our own species has been around. It is best known from the sites of Hadar, Ethiopia (Lucy, AL 288-1 and the 'First Family', AL 333); Dikika, Ethiopia (Dikika child skeleton); and Laetoli (fossils of this species plus the oldest documented bipedal footprint trails). Similar to chimpanzees, Au. afarensis children grew rapidly after birth and reached adulthood earlier than modern humans. This meant Au. afarensis had a shorter period of growing up than modern humans have today, leaving them less time for parental guidance and socialization during childhood.
Au. afarensis had both ape and human characteristics: members of this species had apelike face proportions (a flat nose, a strongly projecting lower jaw) and braincase (with a small brain, usually less than 500 cubic centimeters -- about 1/3 the size of a modern human brain), and long, strong arms with curved fingers adapted for climbing trees. They also had small canine teeth like all other early humans, and a body that stood on two legs and regularly walked upright. Their adaptations for living both in the trees and on the ground helped them survive for almost a million years as climate and environments changed.
so That’s where pimples came from!
Looks a little like Chuckie Schumer -— minus the tears.
I’d recognize Hillary’s clan anywhere.
“The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.”
They just found a tiny Democrat.
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Real scientists are rarely called scientists.
The media are making the exaggerated claim that they are scientists because their methodology is deeply unscientific.
No worry. Beginning in about 6 months, truth is going to begin pouring out at a phenomenal rate, and all these hucksters will begin to wet their pants.
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Way beyond mere fiction.
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Most pertinent comment award for this thread!
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My aunt and uncle are 96 and 95 years old.
That is as close as I can get to this ancestor.....
An ancestor of a lamprey, maybe?
“Hello, m’honey! Hello, m’baby! Hello, my ragtime gal!
Send me a kiss by wire! Baby, my heart’s on fire!
If you refuse me, honey, you lose me. Then I’ll be all alone...
So, baby, call me and tell me I’m your own!”
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