What about his parrot, a 15-year-old African ... of the human brain has discovered another brain to study -- without all of the attendant weirdness and wickedness. The bird brain.

Being called a “bird brain” may be closer to a compliment than an insult. That’s because new research suggests that some birds evolved over time to have smaller bodies and maintain large brains.

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

researchers don’t know much about how the bird brain evolved. There’s a gap. But now, an 80 million year old bird fossil from the Mesozoic era is helping fill in this gap. It has a remarkably ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 million-year-old bird fossil that sheds light on that mystery.