Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Robert Barton has received funding from the BBSRC and Leverhulme Trust. Joanna Baker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

Size matters. Thomas Huxley found that mammalian brains are broadly equivalent in structure and differ primarily in size. Even within our own species, there is some evidence that people with larger ...

According to new research out of Hungary and Sweden, the brain size of modern dog breeds is becoming larger. This is in comparison to more ancient breeds which go back thousands of years and are ...

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 to our closest relatives. Our ...

We’re going to take a closer look at brains, how animals use them, and how some animals have even evolved to lose them! It turns out a brain (and intelligence more broadly) isn’t easy to define, but ...