Optical illusions have been a brain teaser enthusiast's pleasure for centuries, pushing the brain to process complex visual ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Their brains certainly are huge, and here's what we know. Elephants have the largest brain of all terrestrial mammals, and has the largest cerebral cortex by volume in the animal kingdom.

Julia Hass, a college student, claimed in a December 2017 tweet that elephants think humans are cute. Based on a Tumblr post ...

An elephant's brain is four times heavier than a human's. But as a percentage of its body mass it ranks at the bottom. The data used in the video is from UCLA Statistics and the images are from ...

Studies show that structures in the elephant brain are strikingly similar to those in humans. MRI scans of an elephant's brain suggest a large hippocampus, the component in the mammalian brain ...

BARBER: How elephant seals are helping scientists monitor ... and they're located in this part of our brain called the hypothalamus. But sugar seems to hijack that system in an interesting way.