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Sea urchins might not be as simple as once thought. New study finds that their entire body may be their brain.
Maybe we aren't as smart as we think we are.
Nervous system and muscles in sea urchin larvae: Green indicates the entire larval nervous system. Magenta marks the muscles of the digestive tract. Tsukuba, Japan—A cluster of non-visual, ...
It used to be thought that sea urchins only had a primitive nervous system, but new research has found that they are far more complex than that. The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are ...
Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...
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