This Digging, Eating Worm Is Your Cousin | Video

Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 05:13 in Biology & Nature

Genes linked to Acorn worms’ (Saccoglossus kowalevskii) breathing and feeding apparatus are present in humans, and may control parts of the same systems. Our common ancestor lived about 1 billion years ago.

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