Do you know someone who spends a long time yawning? He may not be lazy he may just have a big, neuron-rich brain. A new study published this week in Biology Letters found the amount of time it takes ...

Yawning doesn't mean you're bored, it just means you've got one big, hot brain in your head, according to a study published Tuesday in Biology Letters. The Atlantic reports that researcher Andrew ...

When I interviewed Andrew Gallup, I yawned five times in the space of half an hour. That wasn’t because he was boring. It was because he studies yawning—and not just in humans, either. Gallup, a ...

The other day I woke up, stretched, yawned, and wondered: Do all beasts, large and small, stretch and yawn? What about rhinos, hippos, ants, or even the wee little ...

(KCBS) - A bit of an unusual topic but a fun one, too: humans often will yawn when we see somebody else yawn. Animals, believe it or not, may do the same. "It's simply the increased likelihood that ...

My dog is a big yawner. The very first time I picked him up when he was a puppy, he was a yawning, bundle of squirm. (You can see his photo from those yawny puppy years below.) It's two years later, ...

You know the feeling. It’s getting close to bedtime, you get sleepy, and you start yawning automatically. You may even find yourself yawning in the middle of the day in a mid-day lull. These yawns ...

Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it too, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and ...

Studies suggest that our ability to yawn — and that of chimps, dogs and even baboons — relates to our ability to show empathy. Now, a new study on wolves suggests that it’s more common in animals than ...

Dogs can catch yawns from humans, regardless of whether they are familiar with the person, according to a study. The authors of the paper say their findings question the idea that contagious yawning ...

Have you ever wondered why yawning is contagious? It may be a way to bond with your fellow human being, but scientists have other theories. We’re one sentence into this story and I’ve already yawned ...