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 ...
Identifying Uncus helps clarify the origins and rapid diversification of ecdysozoan lineages during the Cambrian explosion. For the first time, this fossil provides direct evidence of early ...
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 ...