Fascinating Thread Lists Animals That Are the Most (and Least) Related to Humans

It's fairly common knowledge that chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest living relatives of human beings, but even the most alien creatures in the animal kingdom have at least one or two characteristics in common with us humans. Twitter user @parasociality recently started a fascinating thread entitled "a hierarchy of alienness," in which they list animals from least to most related to humans. Apparently, our least-related animal relatives are porifera (a.k.a. sponges). Who's going to break it to SpongeBob? Today I learned that both humans and rabbits are euarchontoglires, which basically means that we both belong to a grouping of rodents, lagomorphs, tree shrews, colugos and primates, but it directly translates to "true rulers and dormice," according to @parasociality. But is there one common ancestor of all animals on earth? Researches discovered the oldest known relatives of most animals, and it's a worm. So the next time you see an earthworm wriggling around in your garden, stop and see if it will offer any ancient wisdom.

Keep scrolling to read @parasociality's interesting thread that shows us all the ways in which we're related to earth's alien sea creatures and familiar primates. 

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