Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Science News Daily || Early arthropod had a fancy brain

This picture shows a nearly intact fossil of Fuxianhuia protensa. The inset shows the fossilized brain in the head of another specimen. The remarkably well-preserved fossil of an extinct arthropod shows that anatomically complex brains evolved earlier than previously thought and have changed little over the course of evolution. According to University of Arizona neurobiologist Nicholas Strausfeld, who co-authored the study describing the specimen, the fossil is the earliest known to show a brain.

Spineless critter had oldest complex brain

ANCIENT SMARTS: A 520-million-year-old fossil has yielded evidence that complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, say scientists.

10 minutes ago from ABC Science

Fossil shows early complex brain

TUCSON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A 520 million-year-old fossil shows complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought with little change anatomically since then, U.S. scientists say. ...

3 hours ago from UPI

Source: http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster232781760/

pnc Honey Boo Boo yom kippur yom kippur dancing with the stars modern family george strait

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.