From arthropods to aortas

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University of Arizona neuroscientist Nicholas Strausfeld, PhD, and a team of researchers unearthed a fossil in China with the earliest known cardiovascular system. The fossil is of Fuxianhuia protensa and it dates back to the Cambrian Period, the Arizona Daily Star reported.

UA prof reveals an intact circulatory system that is half a billion years old

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