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Arachnids Originated in Cambrian Seas, New Research Suggests


Paleontologists have analyzed the fossilized features of the brain and central nervous system of Mollisonia symmetrica, an extinct animal that lived in the mid-Cambrian seas around 508 million years ago.

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