Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

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 ...

Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest ...