Stegosaurus is one of those dinosaurs we all recognise straight away—big, slow, covered in plates, and dragging a spiky tail ...

Consider the incredible potential and challenges of possessing a brain twice the standard size. Mark Carney's Chances Against Pierre Poilievre: Recent Polls Oldest astronaut lands back on Earth on ...

Historically, scientists have long believed that brain size increased proportionally with body size. This linear assumption, accepted for over a century, is now being questioned by recent findings ...

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The first surge in our brain size occurred between 2 million and 800,000 years ago, when our species' increase in territory and physical size caused our brains to literally grow.

At 3.2 million years old, Lucy was remarkably primitive, with a brain and body about the size of a chimpanzee’s. But her ankle, knee and pelvis showed that she walked upright like us.

Review in Communications Biology suggests that the external fermentation of foods may have played a key role in the expansion of the hominid brain. The "external fermentation hypothesis" posits ...

A new paper shows that, during the warming of the Holocene, human brain size has decreased by 10 percent. This macro-evolutionary trait suggests that human brain size is influenced by ...

Ants in the genus Brachymyrmex have a 1:8 brain-to-body-mass ratio. (Image credit: vinisouza128 / 500px via Getty Images) Just as absolute brain size isn't a good predictor of animal intelligence ...

More information: Daniel Sol et al, Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01815-x ...