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

A team of researchers led by Rice University's Jacob Robinson and the University of Texas Medical Branch's Peter Kan has ...

The National Institute of Mental Health awards a $344,589 grant to Associate Professor and Behavioral Neuroscientist Laura ...

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

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

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

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

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

Navaornis fills a ~70-million-year gap in our knowledge of the evolution of the unique bird brain. Navaornis hestiae (centre) ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

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