Try to imagine a brain the size of a tiny poppy seed. Believe it or not, scientists have just discovered a brain this small ...

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, like Morse code ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

Summary: A global study of vertebrates reveals that body temperature is the key driver behind brain size evolution. Warm-blooded species like mammals and birds can maintain the energy demands of ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests.