Animals
This Odd, Alien-Like Tiny Jelly Could Be Your Oldest Living Ancestor
In the animal family tree, everything traces back to the jelly. Where did humans come from? The answer might be jellies. In a new paper published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists from the Vanderbilt University and University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested that ctenophores or comb jellies were the first animals on Earth.
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