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Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved.

The finding that the head and brain of <i>Cardiodictyon catenulum</i>, a wormlike animal, show no segmentation may solve a long and heated debate about the origin and composition of the head in arthropods.

According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous system with analyses of gene expression patterns in living descendants, they conclude that a

The 2022 Colorful Yunnan Granfondo Cycling Festival kicked off in Chengjiang county of Yuxi, Yunnan province on Sunday.

There are fossils in Manheim Township that give a glimpse into the species alive when Lancaster County was an ocean floor.

A bristly armored "worm" that scuttled across ocean reefs 518 million years ago is the ancestor to three aquatic animal groups that today live very different lifestyles, and it offers new clues about the explosion of diverse species at the time, a new...

An armored "worm" from the Cambrian called Wufengella bengtsoni is the ancestor to three major animal groups that have totally different lifestyles today, a new study finds.

Scientists have discovered that a well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animal

A collection of well-preserved fish fossils were unearthed in two newly discovered fossil beds from the early Silurian Period - around 439 to 436 million years ago - in Southwest Chinas Chongqing Municipality and Guizhou Province.

Scientists have discovered that a well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.