Ancestors Of Cleveland Residents Found In Norwegian Lake Sludge

“We have found an unknown branch of the tree of life that lives in this lake. It is unique. So far we know of no other group of organisms that descends from closer to the roots of the tree of life than this species.”
 — University of Oslo researcher Dr. Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi on the discovery that the collodictyon, a single-cell creature found in the sludge of a lake located 20 miles outside of Oslo, does not fit into any of the previously known categories of living organisms. It is “human’s remotest relative,” reports Discovery News. And “not an animal, plant, parasite, fungus or alga.”