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

Being called a “bird brain” may be closer to a compliment than an insult. That’s because new research suggests that some birds evolved over time to have smaller bodies and maintain large brains.

Plumes of neuronal activity propagate in three dimensions through the nuclear avian brain. BMC Biology , 2014; 12 (1): 16 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-16 Cite This Page : ...

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.

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 macaw has a brain the size of an unshelled walnut, while the macaque monkey has a brain about the size of a lemon. Nevertheless, the macaw has more neurons in its forebrain - the portion of ...

Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence Dr. Nathan Emery's new book is a gold mine of information and surprises Posted August 29, 2016 ...

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.

Parrots can chat with humans, pigeons can tell a Picasso painting from a Monet and, in the Galapagos islands, Darwin's finches can spear insects with tools they make from cactus spines -- but ...

An international team of evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed the evolution of the avian brain using a massive dataset of brain volumes from dinosaurs, extinct birds like ...