The Researchers reconstructed the face of the organism which might be one of our earliest ancestors. Meanwhile, two researchers from Harvard announced that they have created solid metallic...
========== The fact that we exist at all is kind of amazing. Like, somehow, a bunch of primordial goop
became everything living on Earth today. To figure out how that happened, scientists
turn to the fossil record. And in a paper published this week in the
journal Nature, a team of researchers reconstructed the face of one of our earliest ancestors,
found in some 540-million-year-old limestone that’s in what is now central China. And it looks like something straight out of
a B monster movie, or a Alien, but this thing is tiny — only a millimeter or so big. So don’t be too afraid Scientists call it Saccorhytus coronarius. The genus name comes from the Latin for “sack”
or “bag,” which is basically the animal’s body shape, plus the Greek word for “wrink...