Dimwitted Mammals Needed Muscle More Than Brains After Dinosaurs Died
It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last.
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It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last.
Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish shown fewer than five shapes can add or subtract "one" from the total to gain a reward
Neuroscientists are exploring whether shapes like squares and rectangles — and our ability to recognize them — are part of what makes our species special.
The magpies showed their smarts by helping one another remove tracking harnesses that scientists carefully placed on them.
The relatively high intelligence of octopuses may be due in part to high numbers of microRNAs that could let them generate more types of neurons