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

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

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 ...

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

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical ...

The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains ...

"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 ...

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history. César Perdomo, a rancher and ...

The research team, led by the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ... describing it ...

"we still don't know why birds are able to do this or when it began to occur in their evolutionary history." ...