How the avian brain evolved over many millions of years from an ancestral dinosaurian form has long puzzled scientists, but ...

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

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

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

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

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

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 ...

Navaornis fills a ~70-million-year gap in our knowledge of the evolution of the unique bird brain. Navaornis hestiae (centre) ...

Computational Neuroscience is a rapidly evolving field that seeks to understand the brain's complex functions through ...