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Scientists finally solve major evolution puzzle regarding world’s oldest animals
The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...
The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...
Scientists already knew that the pair of shallow coastal ocean dwellers keep very different schedules of downtime: The ...
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Jellyfish Snooze Like We Do, And It Could Explain The Origins of Sleep
Yet, jellyfish tend to sleep through the night like humans, and even nap around midday. Meanwhile, their close relative, the ...
A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...
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Israeli research traces need for sleep over millions of years of evolution
Bar-Ilan University study shows that even jellyfish and sea anemones repair DNA during repose, underscoring the fact that a ...
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Cracking sleep's evolutionary code: Neuron protection traced back to jellyfish and sea anemones
A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...
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Jellyfish and Sea Anemones May Be Brainless — but They're More Similar to Us Than We Thought
Experts found that these sea creatures sleep for at least 8 hours a day, a duration often considered ideal for human sleep.
Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their ...
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