(October 18, 2013 at 6:21 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(October 18, 2013 at 4:26 pm)TheBeardedDude Wrote: 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
Mmmmm... talk dirty to me, beardy
So beer and beards... What else do you like that I like that you like?
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
