In a highly unexpected defiance of evolutionary biology, feral populations of the American mink have been shown to reverse key changes to their brain size that occur during domestication. The study ...

Researchers recently discovered that minks have regrown their brains post-domestication. As animals are domesticated, their brain size usually shrinks. For a long time, this was thought to be pretty ...

Two species of water-loving mammals were once widespread in North Central Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma but their populations declined after human settlement, habitat modifications and a past demand ...

“Our results show that loss of brain size is not permanent in domesticated animals,” says Ann-Kathrin Pohle, a Master’s student at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and first author on the ...