For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

Million-Year-Old Cambrian Fossils Indicate Earliest Known Example of Predator-Prey 'Arms Race' Scientists have found evidence ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst ... a wormlike creature that swam in middle Cambrian seas. Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

These fossils, dated to approximately 535 million years ago, were found in the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota in southern Shaanxi Province, China. The research, led by Professor Zhang Huaqiao ...

The fossils also showed that the eye stalks were mobile ... The evolution of eyes could certainly have triggered an arms race during the Cambrian Period,' says Dr Ma. 'Eyes give you a huge advantage ...

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary history of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals, revealing that the common ancestor likely possessed a single ventral nerve cord. Paired nerve ...

A study analyzing Cambrian fossils uncovered that the ancestral ecdysozoan likely had a single ventral nerve cord, ...

Lead researcher Ian Hughes, a Ph.D. candidate from Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, expressed the excitement surrounding the find, noting, "Ecdysozoans were prevalent in ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period ... well-preserved fossils from key Cambrian deposits.