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 ...

“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 ...