Wednesday 28 January 2009

Meet your ancestor


Scientists have been re-jigging the animal family tree, and have found this strange critter lurking close to the root. It's safe to say we've come a long way over the past 600 million years.

Image: W. Jakob

3 comments:

Anita@antenna said...

I can see the family resemblance Louis!

Louis@Antenna said...

Thanks Anita. I think it looks more like Australia, rotated anti-clockwise by 90 degrees...

Anita@antenna said...

Actually it’s not that dissimilar to this image of a cat embryo.