Bird cognition has long been synonymous with a lack of intelligence. The term “bird brain” has been used as an insult since at least 1910, with the earlier version “bird-witted” dating ...

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

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.

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 ...

An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to study the detailed structure of its brain. The fossil, which bears a ...