"We think it's a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements." The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth.

Cut off any part of this worm's body and it will regrow. This is the spectacular yet mysterious regenerative ability of ...

“Organisms with these sucker-laden appendages that have worm-like movements need the right kind of nervous system,” Ragsdale said. “Different cephalopods have come up with a segmental ...

a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan animals, a group that includes insects, nematodes, and priapulid worms. Their findings, published in a paper titled ...

Paired nerve cords in arthropods ... like kinorhynchs (“mud dragons”) and priapulids (“penis worms”). Their nervous system consisting of the brain, and ventral nerve cord, has often ...

The human brain, the nervous system of a worm, and a computer chip have striking similarities, scientists from the U.S., the U.K., and Germany have discovered. The human brain, the nervous system ...

a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan animals, a group that includes insects, nematodes, and priapulid worms. Their findings, published in Science Advances ...

a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan animals, a group that includes insects, nematodes, and priapulid worms. Their findings, published in Science Advances, provide ...