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.
The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...
Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have discovered a new species of nudibranch. They ...
The fossil fills a 70-million-year gap in our understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the ...
By James WoodfordAn 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists ...
A research team used state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain in remarkable ...
Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...
“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth ... the first emperor penguin colony wasn’t discovered until ...
Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...
Some bones forgotten in a drawer for more than 20 years turned out to be from a species of dinosaur never seen before.
A remarkable new ... flying dinosaur. Ambopteryx’s most striking feature is its membranous wings, which were supported by ...