Charles Darwin famously discussed the “imperfections” of the geological record in his book On The Origin of Species. He correctly pointed out that unless conditions are just right, it’s unlikely for ...

Charles Darwin famously discussed the "imperfections" of the geological record in his book On The Origin of Species. He correctly pointed out that unless conditions are just right, it's unlikely for ...

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

New evidence of preserved brain tissue from the Cambrian period counters arguments that nervous tissue cannot be fossilized. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Extant panarthropods (euarthropods, onychophorans and tardigrades) are hall-marked by stunning morphological and taxonomic diversity, but their central nervous systems (CNS) are relatively conserved.

Two tiny fossils, each smaller than an aspirin pill, contain fossilized nerve tissue from 508 million years ago. The bug-like Cambrian creatures could help scientists piece together the evolutionary ...

The oldest intact nervous system has been identified in a 520-million-year-old clawed animal related to spiders and scorpions. An international team of researchers, including Museum palaeontologists ...

Fossil specimen of Stanleycaris hirpex. Dark material inside the head is the remains of nervous tissue, specimen ROMIP 65674.1. Photo by Jean-Bernard Caron © Royal ...

If you’d been around 520 million years ago and been living at the bottom of the ocean, you would not have wanted to stumble across the extinct creature scientists just identified from fossil records ...

The authors noted symmetrical stains along the creature's midline that resembled nervous system structures found in some modern arthropods, including horseshoe crabs, spiders and scorpions. "The ...

Charles Darwin famously discussed the “imperfections” of the geological record in his book On the Origin of Species. He correctly pointed out that unless conditions are just right, it’s unlikely for ...