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

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 ...

Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant is the ...

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

Navaornis is likened to a sort of Rosetta Stone for decyphering the evolution of bird brains.

Now, the discovery of a bird that’s been named Navaornis hestiae could change all that, as despite having died around 80 ...

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

The three-dimensional preservation of the skull allowed the research team, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, to digitally ...

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

Dr Navalón said: “This represents nearly 70 million years of avian evolution in which all the major lineages of Mesozoic birds originated - including the first representatives of the birds that ...