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

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

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

A unique fossil discovery in Brazil provides new insights into bird brain evolution, while a study highlights drastic ...

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

Medically reviewed by David Strosberg, MD The posterior communicating artery (PCOM) is a part of a group of arteries in the ...

As they map the brain in greater detail, they may learn how to diagnose disorders by their effect on anatomy, and perhaps even understand how those disorders arise. On my return trip to his lab ...

Evidence for this function first came from studies of the organ's anatomy and its nerves as well ... intensifying weak light. The small brain occupies only about 1.5 percent of the braincase ...

The cuttlefish has one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of any invertebrate, perhaps even larger than that of the octopus. The cuttlefish brain can handle input from a variety of senses ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition ...

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...

Imagine you're standing in a hallway in a game - what does the scene need in order to make it scary? Should we turn ...