Ladies and Gents, I give you: Your great-great-great-great-etc grandthing.
This is presumed to be what all other life on Earth evolved from. Something to do with DNA and Midiclorines, honestly I’m not too up on the science behind it.
So, I guess this is what those weird aliens used for seeding.
Source:io9
Very cool post!
Me wants to know its phylogenetic tree!
or it’s partial DNA sequence and I can align them myself 😉