#  New fossil demonstrates novel arthropod brain preservation 

 





July 27, 2021

 

 

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In [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com/ancient-brains-a-look-inside-the-extraordinary-preservation-of-a-310-million-year-old-nervous-system-164321?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton) MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, [Javier Ortega-Hernández](https://ortega-hernandezlab.oeb.harvard.edu), and colleagues talk about their recent work and discovery of a new preservation method of soft tissue in a fossil arthropod. The work is published in [Geology](https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G49193.1/606398/Central-nervous-system-of-a-310-m-y-old-horseshoe) and featured in [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/science/brain-fossil-horseshoe-crab.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science).