Interesting Fossil discoveries
October 18, 2013 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2013 at 4:26 pm by TheBeardedDude.)
I've done a running thread on paleontological discoveries before, might as well start anew with...
Mapping out the nervous system of an ancestral "great appendage" Chelicerate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...132246.htm
If that doesn't get your ganglia going, I don't know what will. The significance of this study (besides using new techniques for imaging) is a better understanding of the relationships among the arthropods. Arthropods are very diverse (the insects alone are the bulk of modern diversity in animals, hell just the beetles are a staggeringly large proportion of that) and go all the way back to the Cambrian explosion. Better understanding the relationships and evolutionary trajectory of this group could mean a better understanding of the Cambrian Radiation and subsequent diversifications.
And it's just awesome to boot
Mapping out the nervous system of an ancestral "great appendage" Chelicerate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...132246.htm
If that doesn't get your ganglia going, I don't know what will. The significance of this study (besides using new techniques for imaging) is a better understanding of the relationships among the arthropods. Arthropods are very diverse (the insects alone are the bulk of modern diversity in animals, hell just the beetles are a staggeringly large proportion of that) and go all the way back to the Cambrian explosion. Better understanding the relationships and evolutionary trajectory of this group could mean a better understanding of the Cambrian Radiation and subsequent diversifications.
And it's just awesome to boot
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