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

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

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable ...

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

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

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

The flaps mimick a class of feathers that are key to birds' most daring aerial ... No Incentive for Older Birds to Make New Friends Oct. 28, 2024 — Like people, birds have fewer friends as they ...

Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird communicating with others. Birds became the world's master musicians ...

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

The research team at New Mexico Tech has constructed and tested pheasant, mallard duck and pigeon drones and robots. Their ...

Birds can be fun to watch in your backyard, but when they nest on or around your house, they can quickly get too close for ...