Geologic deposits containing fossils with remains of non-biomineralized tissues (ie
Konservat-Lagerstätten) provide key insights into ancient organisms and ecosystems. Such …

Exceptionally preserved fossils are the product of complex interplays of biological and
geological processes including burial, autolysis and microbial decay, authigenic …

Several concepts pertaining to the dramatic changes that occurred during the Cambrian
have been proposed, namely the Agronomic Revolution (AR), the Cambrian Substrate …

Phylogenomics underpins a stable and mostly well-resolved hypothesis for the
interrelationships of extant arthropods. Exceptionally preserved fossils are integrated into …

For more than a century, the origin and evolution of the arthropod head and brain have
eluded a unifying rationale reconciling divergent morphologies and phylogenetic …

The panarthropod head represents a complex body region that has evolved through the
integration and functional specialization of the anterior appendage-bearing segments …

Recent years have witnessed a steady increase in reports of fossilized nervous tissues
among Cambrian total-group euarthropods, which allow reconstructing the early …

A widely (although not universally) accepted model of arthropod head evolution postulates
that the labrum, a structure seen in almost all living euarthropods, evolved from an anterior …

Recent discoveries of fossil nervous tissue in Cambrian fossils have allowed researchers to
trace the origin and evolution of the complex arthropod head and brain based on stem …

Bacteria play an important role in the fossilization of soft tissues; their metabolic activities
drive the destruction of the tissues and also strongly influence mineralization. Some …