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IPFS News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology

Strange animals may have their own distinct nervous system

05-23-2014 • ars technica

.... The new paper describes the genome of a different comb jelly (there are 150 species of them, collectively termed ctenophores), the whimsically named Pacific sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia bachei). And its authors claim that the idea of sponges losing their nervous system has it all wrong. Instead, nerves evolved twice....

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Reported By Powell Gammill

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