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

It lived 150 million years ago, but from then to now, well, 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 ...

Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird-like dinosaurs. However, most areas of its brain, like the ...

The study aimed to digitally reconstruct the brain of the bird ... between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds living today.

Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing unprecedented insights into the evolution of avian intelligence.

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.

“Bird brain” is often hurled at ... is that they are non-destructive. In the old days, people needed to pour liquid latex into a brain case, wait for it to set, and then break the skull ...

A remarkable fossil could transform our understanding of how the intelligence of modern birds evolved. The 80-million-year-old complete skull of a bird is revealing more about the evolution of brain ...

Nov 20, 2024 09:26:00 Brain reconstructed from skull fossil of 80-million-year-old bird 'Navaornis hestiae' - could provide clues to understanding bird brain evolution? A research team from ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...