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

Ceredigion residents are set to be hit with a near 10 per cent council tax increase from April, a county council report has revealed. With Ceredigion County Council facing cost pressures upwards of ...

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary history of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals, revealing that the common ancestor likely possessed a single ventral nerve cord. Paired nerve ...

Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide valuable insights into the origins of these structures in the basal Cambrian period. The research team, comprising Dr Deng Wang (Northwest ...

Scalidophorans, which include priapulids, loriciferans, and kinorhynchs, first appeared in the early Cambrian ... and Eokinorhynchus), the Chengjiang Biota (e.g., Xiaoheiqingella and Mafangscolex ...

Scalidophorans, which include priapulids, loriciferans, and kinorhynchs, first appeared in the early Cambrian ... and Eokinorhynchus), the Chengjiang Biota (e.g., Xiaoheiqingella and Mafangscolex ...

Summary: A study analyzing Cambrian fossils uncovered that the ancestral ecdysozoan ... Kuanchuanpu Formation (e.g., Eopriapulites and Eokinorhynchus), the Chengjiang Biota (e.g., Xiaoheiqingella and ...

The rapid diversification of animals known as the Cambrian explosion (1); transformed planetary ecosystems with novel habitats and food chains (2, 3). However, this emergence of Paleozoic biodiversity ...

Described in the journal Current Biology, the study provides the first demonstrable record of an evolutionary arms race in the Cambrian. "Predator-prey interactions are often touted as a major ...