New research has shown the saccorhytus is not a deep relative of humans as was believed when it was first discovered Analysis of 500 million-year-old fossils shows the holes around its mouth are bases ...

An international research team led by Dr. ZHANG Huaqiao from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has used hundreds of new fossil specimens to ...

Getting from single-celled life to human beings required a lot of branches on the evolutionary tree. One of those branches, which is estimated to have occurred about 670 million years ago, is the ...

If you didn’t like the idea that humanity descended from apes, you’re going to hate this one. Scientists have found what they think is humanity’s earliest known ancestor, and the family resemblance is ...

Don't take this the wrong way, but your oldest ancestor was not exactly a beauty. Scientists say a tiny marine creature from China that wriggled in the seabed mud about 540 million years ago may be ...

Powerful X-ray scanning techniques revealed the 1mm creature in exquisite detail Scientists say they have solved an evolutionary mystery involving a 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature ...

Of all the strange fossils dug up by archaeologist, nothing may be worse than this intriguing eye-sore recently discovered by the University of Cambridge. Saccorhytus, a tiny bag-like sea creature ...

Humans are not just descended from apes, it seems. We're really big-mouthed sacks. The saccorhytus, in fact, is now our earliest known ancestor, say scientists from the University of Cambridge of the ...

Artist’s reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimetre in size. Jian Han Saccorhytus coronarius. That, ...

16:32, Mon, Jan 30, 2017 Updated: 16:33, Mon, Jan 30, 2017 This incredible Alien-like life form is believed to be the creature than mankind evolved from, according to scientists – although it took a ...

A strange microscopic creature which has “a mouth but no anus” and from which humans were earlier thought to have descended has now been found to be a part of a different family tree. The bag-like sea ...

Artist’s reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimetre in size Researchers have discovered the earliest known ...