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

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

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

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

New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.

Only after 1960 did people start to understand that dinosaurs were more like birds than reptiles. A huge debate revolves around the fact that studying evolution relies heavily on fossils, and it is ...

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

A rare 80-million-year-old fossil bird skull is helping scientists decode how modern bird intelligence evolved.

"we still don't know why birds are able to do this or when it began to occur in their evolutionary history." Some of the measurements for this study were taken at the imaging facility of the ...

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

The Navaornis discovery filled in a gap of 70 million years in the understanding of the evolution ... of early birds - those ...