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Scientists uncover 80-million-year-old ancient bird's brain structure
The discovery provides the most complete glimpse to date of the brains of the ancestral birds that once flew above the ...
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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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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest ...
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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Fossilised dinosaur brain tissue identified for the first time
An unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter in Sussex, has been confirmed by researchers from The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge as the first ...
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First dinosaur brain reveals what experts never expected
An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time, fossilized remains of a dinosaur's brain tissue have been discovered on a pebble in England. But there's something about this fossil that ...
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Rare braincase provides insight into dinosaur brain
The find could help scientists uncover some of the mysteries of how dinosaur brains operated, including their intellectual and sensory abilities. The team have digitally reconstructed the cavity where ...
'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 ...