A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

Scientists studying ability of mice to regenerate ear damage say therapies based on retinoic acid might work across various ...

Few people know the body of Ilia Topuria (16-0) better than Raul Valdesuso and Fran Ortega. The two physiotherapists, eminent at national and international level, have been treatin ...

Microglia have been found in the peripheral nervous system and their role in regulating neuronal size throughout evolution uncovered.

“Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the nervous system ...

Discover how a recent fossil study sheds light on the evolution of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals and its implications for understanding animal nervous systems.

This begs the question: did the ancestor of all ecdysozoan animals have a single or paired ventral nerve cord? The researchers were also interested in knowing why loriciferans and kinorhynchs share a ...

The study also highlights a connection between the evolution of paired ventral nerve cords, ganglia, and body segmentation. Loriciferans, kinorhynchs, and panarthropods exhibit varying degrees of body ...

These fossils include representatives of the early-evolving Scalidophora, a subgroup of Ecdysozoa, offering a rare glimpse into the nervous system architecture of ancient animals.