A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of the ancestral brain: the visual cortex of turtles is capable of detecting ...

Turtles exhibit a remarkable capacity to survive prolonged periods without oxygen through a suite of adaptive mechanisms. Central to this tolerance is a dynamic suppression of neuronal activity, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red-eared slider - pond turtle. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) The study provides new insights into the functions of ...

Based on their findings, the research team suggests that advanced visual computations previously thought to be unique to mammals, had already evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. A new study ...