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 ...

Think dolphins have the largest brain-to-body ratio? Think again! Scientists have identified a surprising U.S. animal that has an even more impressive brain-to-body proportion, giving it a unique ...

As an animal gets larger, its brain size increases as well, though not in direct proportion – it is not a one-to-one relationship. This phenomenon is called allometric scaling.

The largest animals do not have proportionally bigger brains - with humans bucking this trend - a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution has revealed. Researchers at the University of ...

Ancient pig-like animal shows beginnings of mammalian brain evolution. By Will Dunham. June 21, 2024 12:59 PM UTC Updated June 21, 2024 Item 1 of ... not a big balloon-like orb, ...

A new modeling study helps confirm that key connections in the brain are formed in the same way across different animal species, likely including humans. When you purchase through links on our ...

It traces each and every one of the 139,255 neurons in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster, along with the 50 million connections between them, and is by far the largest and most detailed ever ...

As an animal gets larger, its brain size increases as well, though not in direct proportion – it is not a one-to-one relationship. This phenomenon is called allometric scaling .