Having a head is quite an advantage. Although this may sound banal, it had to be tested by evolution in a long process: As animal life developed, it was invertebrates who initially dominated the ...

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Researchers describe a 500 million-year-old tunicate fossil species. The study suggests that the modern tunicate body plan was already established soon after the Cambrian Explosion. Karma Nanglu says ...

Karma Nanglu says his favorite animal is whichever one he’s working on. But his latest subject may hold first place status for a while: a 500-million-year-old fossil from the wonderfully weird group ...