New research has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins, which appear to possess an “all-body brain”.

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there's much more to these ...

Sea urchins look like an inanimate bundle of needles, but a closer look at these alien-like creatures reveals a surprisingly ...

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

The first hint of a brain developed on Earth around 600 million years ago, and now, some version of the organ can be found in nearly every animal in the world. Humans have the largest brain size ...

Leuven, 14 February 2025 – In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define brain cell types across species. They trained ...

All bilateral creatures have some asymmetry, such as the human heart being located slightly to the left and the liver being ...

Andrew Barron receives funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation Project Grant TWCF-2020-2539 The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of ...