In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

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

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year ...

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

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

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 ...

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 ...

Vampire ground finches will resort to feasting on the blood of other birds if conditions are particularly ... members that support their independent evolution," Mans said. Sometimes nature goes ...

Tyning will look back on the history of bird conservation and the annual Christmas Bird Count, the longest and largest citizen science project in the world. This count and other bird surveys have led ...