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

Researchers Crack Centuries-Old ‘Skeleton’ Mystery With Help of 550-Million-Yr-Old Fossils, Reveal What Ancient Animals ...

Cambrian shell fossils reveal predator-prey battles shaped evolution, as predators attacked and prey adapted by developing ...

Cambrian fossils from the Kuanchuanpu Formation reveal details of early nervous system evolution in ecdysozoans ...

“These structures closely resemble the ventral nerve cords seen in modern priapulids,” explained Dr Deng Wang and Dr Jean ...

Learn about the wide-ranging Ecdysozoa group of animals and how scientists solved the curious case of their nervous systems' ...

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

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record ...

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

first appeared in the early Cambrian. They represent a crucial lineage for investigating the evolutionary trajectory of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoans. By studying fossils from the ...

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 ...

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 ...