
Hawk eyes reveal hunters visual secrets
The world’s only nocturnal hawk, Australia’s Letter-Winged Kite, may not be any better at seeing in the dark than its closest, day-hunting relatives. An international study […]
The world’s only nocturnal hawk, Australia’s Letter-Winged Kite, may not be any better at seeing in the dark than its closest, day-hunting relatives. An international study […]
Scientists have pieced together a timeline of how brain and body size evolved in mammals over the last 150 million years by comparing the brain mass […]
A new study has revealed a surprising lack of support for widely-held explanations of why some mammals evolve larger brains than expected for their body size. […]
Sex is a complicated affair for Australia’s Jacky Dragon lizard. When an embryo is developing, one of the most important events is when it becomes either […]
Being stretchy and squeezable may be the key to finding space for the brain in mammals, including humans, according to new research. An international study, co-led by […]
Australian rodents skulls all correspond to one simple, size-dependent shape that is more than ten million years old but it turns out this lack of change […]