Saccorhytuscoronarious

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  • S. Conway Morris/Jian Han via Nature

    This tiny glob could be humans' earliest known ancestor

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    Andrew Dalton
    Andrew Dalton
    01.30.2017

    Paleobiologists in search of the earliest records of life on Earth have discovered what they believe is the human race's earliest known ancestor: a 540 million-year-old deuterostome about the size of a grain of rice called Saccorhytus coronarious that may have evolved into everything from sea urchins to land mammals and humans.