article_snippet: Researchers also found that on average it takes around two million years for a new species to emerge from an existing group of animals.
article_snippet: scientists from the University of Chile have now produced a database that can be searched to find out when species separated in evolutionary history and when scientists from the University of Chile last shared a common ancestor.
article_snippet: By searching in the database compiled by the researchers, which is available as a free iPhone app and online, it is possible to see when two species separated in evolutionary history.
article_snippet: For example, homo sapiens and dogs split from a common ancestor 94.2 million years ago while cats and dogs separated sometime later at around 55.1 million years ago.
article_snippet: Crows - a bird that has been shown to have intelligence equivalent to chimpanzees and even young children - separated from chimps and the rest of the primate family 296 million years ago.
highlights_snippet: shows dogs and humans shared a common ancestor 94.2m years ago .
  
highlights_snippet: Crows and chimps separated from each other more than 290m years ago .
  