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

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 ...

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

Despite being the largest and most diverse group of animals on the planet, ecdysozoans have long posed a mystery for scientists due to the absence of clear fossil evidence of their early ancestors, ...