Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

Ben Hirsch receives funding from US National Science Foundation. Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains ...

Modern dogs offer a living record of change shaped by proximity to people. Over time, research shows that brains respond to ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of the ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures in nature, but the brain's origins stretch back hundreds of millions of years. A new study using AI deep-learning models has revealed more about ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Despite not having a brain, jellyfish sleep for around eight hours a day, just like humans according to a new study.

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...

David Crews' lab resembles an exotic pet store; there's not a mouse or rat in sight. This professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, Austin, studies animals such as the inches-long ...