Scientists have discovered a tiny, bag-like prehistoric creature that lived 540 million years ago and could be an ancient ancestor of ours. The prehistoric creature, Saccorhytus, was discovered in microfossils found in rock in Shaanxi province in central China. "Frankly, it doesn't look like anything very exciting; it looks like a tiny dot, a bit smaller than a grain of rice. Morris said this discovery doesn't mean they've found our earliest human ancestor, but it is still exciting. "This is our best glimpse of what we would regard as not the first deuterostome but one of the early examples," he said.

Source: CBC News January 30, 2017 16:07 UTC