Friday, December 16, 2011

FOR KIDS: One big animal family

A new study takes a close look at you and your dog?s ancient relative

Web edition : Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

In your family, it?s easy to figure out whom you?re related to. Siblings share parents, cousins share grandparents and great-grandparents and so on. Go back far enough in time and you?ll discover that you share ancestors with every person on Earth. Continue back even further, and you?ll find an even broader connection: All animals trace to a common ancestor, which means that you, your dog and your fish are related.

In a?new study, scientists report genetic clues indicating that the most recent common ancestor of all animals came along about 800 million years ago.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?One big animal family


Found in: Science News For Kids

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336840/title/FOR_KIDS_One_big_animal_family

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