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 ...

Sea turtles are considered one of the oldest living species on Earth, but it’s been a mystery where their babies go after heading out to sea. Known as their “lost years,” the lack of information makes ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study provides new insights into the functions of ancestral cortices but also raises fundamental questions about how and when key neural computations evolved in turtles. Scientists studying the ...