Vetulicolian - Strange creatures have distant relatives with humans

Scientists have just placed a bizarre marine creature living on the earth's oceans 500 million years ago into the distant "relatives" of humanity.

In fact, scientists have discovered the fossil of the Cambrian marine animal since 1911. At that time, they named this vetulicolian species. From fossil samples, scientists say this is a blind creature that once inhabited the earth's oceans 500 million years ago. In particular, this creature possesses a slender structure along the body, the body tightening as shown in figure 8.

This organism's strange surgery has made it difficult for researchers to arrange their position in the evolutionary tree. But now, this issue has been resolved.

Vetulicolian - Sea creatures have a peculiar shape.

In a new study published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, scientists believe that vetulicolian should be classified as vertebrates.'Although they are not directly related to humans in the evolutionary tree, we can confirm that this creature is one of our distant cousins' - Dr. Diego Garcia-Bellido from the University of Adelaide Environment Institute, the study's lead author said.

'Vetulicolian species have a close family to vertebrates, including humans. The vetucolian has a long tail, supported by a solid bar structure. This hard rod is like a live wire - the precursor of the spine. This is a typical feature of vertebrate animals compared to other species, " said Dr. Diego Garcia-Bellido.

Today, vetulicolian fossils have been discovered in many countries around the world, including Canada, Greenland, China and Australia.

Fossils of vetulicolian.

Latest findings on vetulicolian have been found on fossils discovered on Kangaroo Island, off the southern coast of Australia.

'Vetulicolian' is a proof that life in the Cambrian period is very diverse and abundant, even in some respects more than today, with many sub-branches in the evolutionary tree, ' said Dr. Garcia-Bellido. "These are simple creatures that grow strongly both in quantity and in global distribution. They are also one of the first representatives of human relatives, next to species of subdivision of tails or pangasius. "

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