{"id":3329,"date":"2016-03-24T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2016-03-24T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:22:28","slug":"aesthetic-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/24\/aesthetic-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetic Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>ScienceNews<\/strong><\/em> provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/fossil-reveals-ancient-arthropods-nervous-system\" target=\"_blank\">picture<\/a> of a fossil of unearthly beauty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2016\/03\/main\/articles\/030115_ht_ancientbugnerves_main-scale_free.jpg?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fossilized remains of an about 520-million-year-old creepy-crawly provides a portrait of an ancient arthropod\u2019s nervous system.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers first described Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis \u2014 an ancient relative of spiders, insects and crustaceans unearthed from a fossil bed in southern China \u2014 in 2013. Further imaging and investigation of five new fossilized specimens reveal exceptionally well-preserved soft tissue and a ropelike structure running down the animal\u2019s belly. That structure is the remains of a ventral nerve cord, Xi-guang Zhang of Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and colleagues explain February 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so cool.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> 5 Mar 2016)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScienceNews provides a picture of a fossil of unearthly beauty: The fossilized remains of an about 520-million-year-old creepy-crawly provides a portrait of an ancient arthropod\u2019s nervous system. Researchers first described Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis \u2014 an ancient relative of spiders, insects and crustaceans unearthed from a fossil bed in southern China \u2014 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/24\/aesthetic-fossils\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}