The study cited analysis of fossils unearthed in the Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rockies are reflected on Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. Paleontologists have traced the origins of humans and other vertebrates to a worm that swam in the oceans half a billion years ago, said a study. A new analysis of fossils unearthed in the Canadian Rockies determined that the extinct Pikaia gracilens is the most primitive known member of the chordate family.