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The Middle Cambrian chordate known as Pikaia gracilens was once thought to be humanity’s earliest known ancestor, and the earliest known member of the phylum Chordata.; Now, a new study flips ...

Despite much investigation, the origin of the phylum Chordata, which contains all vertebrates including ourselves, remains unclear. The central nervous system (CNS) could hold the answers. So ...

Phylum: Chordata (animals that have a notochord at some point in their lives; in fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, the notochord becomes the vertebral column) Class: Mammalia.

Scientists say that is an astounding discovery because it's an animal belonging to the Phylum Chordata, which are animals with a dorsal cord, which also includes humans.

They belong to the phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish and sea cucumbers, whereas humans belong to the phylum Chordata, or all animals with a notochord during some point in their ...

Lancelets (‘amphioxus’) are the modern survivors of an ancient chordate lineage, with a fossil record dating back to the Cambrian period. Here we describe the structure and gene content of the ...

“Salps actually, this will sound a little odd, they’re our cousins. They are very simple members of the phylum chordata,” said Coastal Carolina University marine science professor Juliana ...