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

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

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 ...

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary history of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals, revealing that the common ...

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 ...

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

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

Hundreds of perforated Cambrian shells reveal distinctive predator-prey dynamics in the ocean 517 million years ago.

Jan. 10, 2025 — anthropologists have analyzed a skull that was found in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929. It was long speculated that it could be the remains of Arsino IV, the sister of the ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest known example of an evolutionary arms race in the fossil record, dating back 517 million years. These ancient predator-prey interactions took place in the ocean ...

This era, which lasted from about 252 to 201 million years ago, saw the rise of the earliest dinos, before they became dominant in the Jurassic period. “We have, with these fossils, the oldest ...