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'My jaw just dropped': 500 million-year-old larva fossil found with brain preserved

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The fossil is exceptionally well-preserved, revealing never-before-seen details that help explain how arthropods developed complex brains.

Youti yuanshi lived half a billion years ago in the Cambrian seas and helped give rise to living arthropod like insects, spiders and crabs.

The animal died while still in its early development, or larval stage.

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