By looking inside birds’ heads, in the largest study of its kind covering 136 species, the team of researchers in Australia and Canada have proven that “bird brain” is a misnomer.

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence. Story by Science X staff • 4mo. A 'one of a kind' ...

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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.

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.

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, external, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.

After the initial discovery in Brazil in 2016 by William Nava (the fossil’s namesake), the director of the Museu de Paleontologia de Marília in Brazil’s São Paolo State, researchers from Cambridge ...