Some very diverse neurological systems have evolved in animals, like those carried by cephalopods, compared to those found in humans. But scientists have now found an interesting commonality: many ...

A new study of comb jellies has revealed that their nervous system is more complex than previously thought. What’s more, this sheds a whole new light on how nervous systems evolved. Did nervous ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with remarkable capabilities to process information, coordinate movements, and respond ...

Researchers propose that placozoans, one of the simplest kinds of animals, may contain the blueprint for the neurons of more complex creatures. By Sam Jones For hundreds of millions of years, ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists. The first stem cell ...

On this photograph, an adult specimen of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is seen from above. In the centre of the image, it is possible to distinguish the aboral organ, a complex sensory structure.

The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain regeneration.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have ...