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 ...

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

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

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

The Mathematical Mind Offers Neuroscientists a Master Class in Concentration Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think ...

"This fossil is truly so one-of-a-kind that I was awestruck from the moment I first saw it to the moment I finished ...

A groundbreaking study using PET scans has revealed that autistic individuals have fewer brain synapses, directly correlating ...

These devices could serve as valuable tools for biomedical research and may have potential for clinical applications in the ...

How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise ...

Researchers are using brain mapping to create a comprehensive understanding of the brain's intricate anatomy, much like Google Earth allows us to zoom in from satellite images of the entire planet to ...

Discover what really happens when you die — the brain's final surge, chemical releases, and the mysterious experiences at the ...