Scientists used to believe that a group containing starfish and sea urchin were the closest relatives of vertebrates like humans. But new research challenges this idea.
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We found footprints that measure around 24 centimetres long. We suspect they came from animals with legs the same height as humans.
Most of our genes descend directly from the last common ancestor of animals.
