The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains -- with humans bucking this trend -- a new study has revealed. The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains -- with humans ...

Behavior that we’d consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from ours—a species of octopus and various birds—engage with tools, to give just ...

As you explore the Study Abroad website, you may see the map above and wonder why it looks slightly different than maps you are used to seeing. This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, ...

Which animals have the longest arms? Based on size alone, humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) would easily crush all other competition with their massive flippers, which evolved from the arms of ...

Brain organization, not overall size, may be the key evolutionary difference between primate brains, and the key to what gives humans their smarts, new research suggests. In the study, researchers ...

Monocular cues are ways one eye judges distance, depth, and three-dimensional space. Six monocular cues guide depth perception: relative size, interposition, linear perspective, aerial perspective, ...