It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable ...

But how the avian brain evolved over many millions of years from an ancestral dinosaurian form has long puzzled scientists. That has now changed thanks to a spectacular fossil discovery in Brazil.

The researchers say their discovery, reported in the journal Nature, could be a sort of ‘Rosetta Stone’ for determining the evolutionary origins of the modern avian brain.

Archaeopteryx is the earliest bird-like dinosaur that we know of. It lived 150 million years ago, but researchers don’t know much about how the bird brain evolved from then to now. Navaornis skeleton.

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 ...

For years, scientists debated whether the sophisticated neural networks in bird and mammal brains originated from a common ancestor. This new study, published in Science, provides strong evidence ...

The video above outlines recent work by Cambridge University scientists, which examines how an 80-million-year-old bird skull fossil can reveal more about the evolution of brains and intelligence in ...

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable "one-of-a-kind" fossil. The prehistoric species, named Navaornis hestiae, lived ...

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.

In 1969, Karten wrote a “very influential paper that completely changed the discussion in the field,” said Maria Tosches, who studies vertebrate brain development at Columbia University. “His work was ...

“A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” said Onur Güntürkün, who studies brain structures at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.