The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Key aspects of early bird evolution have been difficult to resolve, owing to a lack of suitably preserved fossilized remains. A fossilized skull of a bird that lived during the age of the ...

A rare 80-million-year-old fossil bird skull is helping scientists decode how modern bird intelligence evolved.

Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing ...

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able ...

A new study reconstructs the skull and brain of ‘Navaornis hestiae,’ a species positioned at the crossroads of the ...

The bird, about the size of a starling, was extremely well preserved, with the skull almost completely preserved, which is unusual for a bird fossil. The bird was named 'Navaornis hestiae' after ...

A research team used state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain in remarkable ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.