Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of brain cells.

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

Woodpeckers endure incredible head impacts without injury, thanks to a unique adaptation. Their extraordinarily long tongue ...

Situated in a dark groove is a drum never to be beaten. Thin as a strand of hair, the delicate drum transmits sound waves. This drum does not speak; it ...

People often marvel at how much—and how little—intelligence is displayed in the animal kingdom. Often the subject of research ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

and mostly moved away from studying the human or animal brain as an artifact of evolution with specifics worth mimicking. Individual pieces of research have gradually identified a host of ...

Researchers have discovered how the brain of the largest animal group evolved after finding ... researchers to see more of an early arthropod's anatomy than they normally would.

For animals like crocodiles, brain matter occupies only 30% to 50% ... is more consistent with previous understandings of dinosaur anatomy and intelligence, he said. “I am delighted to see ...

Lynn Dobrunz, PhD, the new chair of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, sees the brain as “the final frontier” of human biological ...