Arthropods

520-Million-Year-Old Clawed Fossil Shows First Discovered Complete Nervous System

It might 520 million years old, but a recent fossil discovery holds the key to a very important step in the evolutionary history of the modern day nervous system. The fossilized remains of a three-centimeter-long distant ancestor of chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and scorpions, marks the world's oldest complete nervous system ever found.

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