A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to go extinct than mainland species, they remain largely ignored by researchers ...
The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology demonstrates that a much older structure, the superior colliculus, contains the necessary circuitry to ...
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum f眉r Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an "all-body brain" whose ...
Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, mammals and birds have the largest brains in relation to their body size, followed by sharks and ...
Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur?
The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.
A new study published in the journal Nature Conservation assesses the threat status of bird species from Vietnam, underscoring the country's critical conservation needs.
A new international study led by researchers from Aarhus University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that small bats can be just as efficient predators as lions鈥攁nd often more successful.
University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' survival around the world.
What if everything we know about T. rex growth is wrong? A complete tyrannosaur skeleton has just ended one of paleontology's longest-running debates鈥攚hether Nanotyrannus is a distinct species, or just a teenage version ...
