A new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals the surprising neurological landscape of fish brains. Harvard ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

Does a big brain make you smarter? A study published in PNAS provides a nuanced answer in bees. By testing their ability to ...

Humans owe our impressive intellect to our large brains, which are unusually sophisticated thanks to evolution. The first surge in our brain size occurred between 2 million and 800,000 years ago, when ...

The skull of a dog and the 3D model of the brain in it based on high-resolution CT-scanning. A recent study by László Zsolt Garamszegi from the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological ...

Scientists have long known that the brains of modern wolves are larger than dogs, but it’s unclear when the impact of ...

Dogs have long been known to have smaller brains than the wolves they descended from. But when they started to shrink has ...

Human brains have been steadily growing through the decades, and that may be lowering the risk of dementia. A new study out of UC Davis Health found that people born in the 1970s had brain volumes ...

“The bigger the better” seems to be one of those maxims that humankind is hardwired to live by. The notion is followed pretty consistently throughout nature, too, at least when it comes to gathering ...