Family lines
How related are we? Pick any two living things to see where their family lines meet, how long ago, and every branch in between.
Pick one E. coli Gut methane-maker Bracken fern Common haircap moss English oak Giant sequoia Nori seaweed Sunflower Giant kelp Many-headed slime mould Baker's yeast Fly agaric Antarctic krill Atlantic horseshoe crab Common earthworm Common octopus Common starfish Garden snail Monarch butterfly Moon jellyfish Regal jumping spider Sea squirt Staghorn coral Venus' flower basket Western honey bee African bush elephant Axolotl Barn owl Blue whale Bornean orangutan Capybara Chimpanzee Clownfish Coelacanth Common hippopotamus Dog Emperor penguin Giraffe Great white shark Green sea turtle Grey-headed flying fox House cat House mouse Human King cobra Koala Lined seahorse Nile crocodile Panther chameleon Platypus Red kangaroo Red-eyed tree frog Reef manta ray Ring-tailed lemur Ruby-throated hummingbird Sea lamprey Triceratops Tyrannosaurus rex All life Amniotes Amoebas, fungi and animals Amphibians Animals Archaea Arthropods Bacteria Bats, carnivores and hoofed mammals Birds Bony fish and their descendants Carnivorans Chordates Crocodiles and dinosaurs Crustaceans and insects Cyanobacteria Diatoms Dinosaurs Eukaryotes Even-toed hoofed mammals and whales Flowering plants Four-limbed animals Fungi Fungi and animals Great apes Hippos and whales Humans and chimpanzees Insects Jawed vertebrates Jellyfish and corals Kelp, diatoms and kin Land plants Live-bearing mammals Lizards and snakes Lobe-finned fish Mammals Marsupials Molluscs Molluscs, worms and kin Moulting animals Mouth-first animals Placental mammals Plants and red algae Primates Primates, rodents and rabbits Ray-finned fish Reptiles and birds Rodents Seed plants Sharks and rays Spiders and kin Starfish, sea squirts and us Turtles, crocodiles and birds Two-sided animals Vertebrates Water bears and another E. coli Gut methane-maker Bracken fern Common haircap moss English oak Giant sequoia Nori seaweed Sunflower Giant kelp Many-headed slime mould Baker's yeast Fly agaric Antarctic krill Atlantic horseshoe crab Common earthworm Common octopus Common starfish Garden snail Monarch butterfly Moon jellyfish Regal jumping spider Sea squirt Staghorn coral Venus' flower basket Western honey bee African bush elephant Axolotl Barn owl Blue whale Bornean orangutan Capybara Chimpanzee Clownfish Coelacanth Common hippopotamus Dog Emperor penguin Giraffe Great white shark Green sea turtle Grey-headed flying fox House cat House mouse Human King cobra Koala Lined seahorse Nile crocodile Panther chameleon Platypus Red kangaroo Red-eyed tree frog Reef manta ray Ring-tailed lemur Ruby-throated hummingbird Sea lamprey Triceratops Tyrannosaurus rex All life Amniotes Amoebas, fungi and animals Amphibians Animals Archaea Arthropods Bacteria Bats, carnivores and hoofed mammals Birds Bony fish and their descendants Carnivorans Chordates Crocodiles and dinosaurs Crustaceans and insects Cyanobacteria Diatoms Dinosaurs Eukaryotes Even-toed hoofed mammals and whales Flowering plants Four-limbed animals Fungi Fungi and animals Great apes Hippos and whales Humans and chimpanzees Insects Jawed vertebrates Jellyfish and corals Kelp, diatoms and kin Land plants Live-bearing mammals Lizards and snakes Lobe-finned fish Mammals Marsupials Molluscs Molluscs, worms and kin Moulting animals Mouth-first animals Placental mammals Plants and red algae Primates Primates, rodents and rabbits Ray-finned fish Reptiles and birds Rodents Seed plants Sharks and rays Spiders and kin Starfish, sea squirts and us Turtles, crocodiles and birds Two-sided animals Vertebrates Water bears Try You and a mushroom Whale and hippo T. rex and an owl Cat and dog An oak and you
Human and Common octopus last shared an ancestor about 580 million years ago .
That ancestor started the branch called Two-sided animals . If life's whole history were squeezed into one year, they went their separate ways on 11 November .
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