Well, for starters, you are an animal! 

Did you know that there are upwards of 100 billion (fact check) animals on our planet and there are millions of animals that we have still yet to discover?!!! 

Also, we, human animals, are related to every other living thing on this planet; Actually, biologists refer to all other Earthly life as either close or distant cousins of ourselves. 

How do we know that we are related to all life on Earth?

The answer is a beautiful and complex piece of biology known as DNA and it lives

at the center of every cell in every living thing on Earth.

In fact, we share 98.8% of the same DNA with Chimpanzies, 90% with Rats, 85% with Dogs, 63% with Chickens, 47% with Fruit Flies, 38% with Roundworms, 24% with Vine Grapes, and 18% with Baker's Yeast. Visit this link to play a fun and interactive game compairing Human DNA to that of other life-