The Great London [02/06/17

  • Fossils: 520-million-year-old arthropod brains turn paleontology on its head

    Science has long dictated that brains don't fossilize, so when Nicholas Strausfeld co-authored the first ever report of a fossilized brain in a 2012 edition of Nature, it was met with "a lot of flack."A: Under a light microscope, the above fossil shows traces of preserved neural tissues in black. B: An elemental scan of this fossi…

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