And given how long these animals have existed, it’s possible that placozoans served as the blueprint for the nervous systems in more complex animals, including humans. The work was published in ...

The elements of a nervous system in the sponge genome may not be so much the beginnings of an animal nervous system as the remnants of a well-developed nervous system in the ancestor, ...

Many scientists thought that the nervous system in animals evolved only once, at some point after sponges broke off from the rest of the animal kingdom, as sponges do not have a nervous system.

Shimmering, gelatinous comb jellies wouldn’t appear to have much to hide. But their mostly see-through bodies cloak a nervous system unlike that of any other known animal, researchers report in ...

An animal with a superpower — it can fuse with another and become one Researchers found that two individuals of a type of comb jelly can fuse and become one with a shared nervous system and ...

The central nervous systems of ecdysozoans, which includes the brain and ventral nerve cord, have perplexed scientists in the past. This is because some phyla within the group contain different ...

Primitive animals called comb jellies can fuse their bodies and nervous systems together. Comb jellies split from the ancestors of all other living animals about 700 million years ago and have ...