The researchers say their discovery, reported in the journal Nature, could be a sort of "Rosetta Stone" for determining the evolutionary origins of the modern avian brain. The fossil fills a 70 ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

Another study characterized cell types in the avian brain, and used computational tools to compare this data with similar data on mammals and reptiles. Birds were found to carry the most inhibitory ...

But this remarkable piece of behavior–it features in the final program of “Life of Birds”–would seem to be a particularly acute demonstration of bird intelligence. The crows in Japan have ...

Subscribe for FREE The second study further explores these differences. Conducted at Heidelberg University (Germany) and co-directed by Bastienne Zaremba, Henrik Kaessmann, and Fernando García-Moreno, ...