The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...

An almost perfect intermediate between Archaeopteryxand modern birds has been discovered with its skull preserved in ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team used state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain in remarkable ...

'One-Of-A-Kind' Skull Fossil From Brazil Reveals Bird Brain Evolution By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity ...