Field added: “This might be just one fossil, but it’s a key piece in the puzzle of bird brain evolution. “With Navaornis, we’ve got a clearer view of the evolutionary changes that occurred ...

Scientists use digital skull scans to reveal bird brain structures, intelligence, and evolution without actual brains.

It's difficult to know what birds 'think' when they fly, but scientists in are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists and neuroscience researchers ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

The discovery was made possible by comparing historical microscopic sections of the brain with digital imprints of the bird's inside braincase, in the largest such study of its kind covering 136 ...

Early efforts to describe brain evolution, such as Herrick's 1926 Brains in Rats and Men, were fun to read, but they were based on a very limited data set. Since then, there has been an explosion ...

Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place ... They would never have met the challenge of evolution without some degree of native cunning. It’s just that some have ...

You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird.” “We can also calibrate that tree to time,” explains the ...