More than 100 years since they were first discovered, some of the world's most bizarre fossils have been identified as distant relatives of humans. The fossils belong to 500-million-year-old blind water creatures, known to scientists as "vetulicolians." Alien-like in appearance, these marine creatures were "filter-feeders" shaped like a figure-of-8.

Source: Ancient fossils confirmed among our strangest cousins


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