Tag Archive for 'Helmetia expansa'

Odaraia alata, a large swimming arthropod with a pair of bulbous eyes and a tubular carapace open ventrally. Image credit: Jean Bernard Caron, Royal Ontario Museum.

500M-Year-Old Fossil Brain Helps Paleontologists Understand Origins of Arthropods

May 8, 2015 by News Staff

Dr Javier Ortega-Hernández of the University of Cambridge, UK, has discovered one of the oldest fossil brains ever found, and used it to help identify...