What is a brain? Biology and Evolution
This is a mouse brain When did the first brains evolve? Flatworms were the first animals to evolve anything like a brain, but it's really just a thickened part of [...]
This is a mouse brain When did the first brains evolve? Flatworms were the first animals to evolve anything like a brain, but it's really just a thickened part of [...]
Fish liver When did the first livers evolve? The earliest beginnings of what became the liver may have been relatives of segmented worms that lived about 600 million years ago. [...]
Digestive system: A hydra eating: the mouth is where all the tentacles come together,near the center of the picture.The hydra is eating the round bug in its stomach. Before digestive [...]
Evolution of fish: a lungfish Why did fish leave the water? About 400 million years ago, during the Devonian period, the Earth was going through an especially warm period. Some [...]
History of fish: it looks like a severed tentacle but it's a lamprey. When did fish evolve? About 510 million years ago, in the Cambrian period, some of the worms [...]