'One-of-a-kind' skull fossil from Brazil reveals bird brain evolution
The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...
Scientists in Argentina unearth oldest tadpole fossil ever discovered
A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...
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‘One of a kind’ fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of bird intelligence
The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...
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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...
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80 million-year-old dinosaur-era fossil bird offers insight into brain evolution
Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...
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Fossil fills 70-million-year gap in understanding
Júlia D’Oliveira Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs The complete skull has been ...
Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...
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Fossil From Age of Dinosaurs Reveals New Early Bird Species
Remarkably, the complete skull of the bird ... of the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx—the earliest bird-like dinosaur—and modern birds was practically non-existent. "This represents ...