Friday, October 18, 2013 7:58:39 PM
So was this 520-million-year-old little guy on noah's ark along with all the dinosaurs?
520-million-year-old insect fossil so well preserved that its NERVOUS SYSTEM can be scanned
The earliest known complete nervous system preserved in the fossilised remains of a creature that crawled and swam in the ocean 520 million years ago has been discovered.
Scientists believe it shows the moment the ancestors of spiders and scorpions evolved from other insects and demonstrates how spiders' biting mouth parts evolved from its ancestor's appendages.
The creature is an ancestor of chelicerates which branched off from the family tree of other arthropods, including insects, crustaceans and millipedes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2463237/520-million-year-old-insect-fossil-reveals-NERVOUS-SYSTEM.html#ixzz2hvis5vGY
520-million-year-old insect fossil so well preserved that its NERVOUS SYSTEM can be scanned
The earliest known complete nervous system preserved in the fossilised remains of a creature that crawled and swam in the ocean 520 million years ago has been discovered.
Scientists believe it shows the moment the ancestors of spiders and scorpions evolved from other insects and demonstrates how spiders' biting mouth parts evolved from its ancestor's appendages.
The creature is an ancestor of chelicerates which branched off from the family tree of other arthropods, including insects, crustaceans and millipedes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2463237/520-million-year-old-insect-fossil-reveals-NERVOUS-SYSTEM.html#ixzz2hvis5vGY
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