Usually we find vertebrae or other bones, very rarely the braincase and this one is complete. I was present on the dig site when it was uncovered and it was a very special moment. “Currently we know ...

During the course of human evolution, our hominin ancestors’ brains changed shape; so did the braincase, the part of the skull surrounding the brain. A team of researchers led by José Luis Alatorre ...

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 ...