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

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

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

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

The fossil specimen, described as "exquisitely ... brain of the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx—the earliest bird-like dinosaur—and modern birds was practically non-existent.

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year ...

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

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 ...

"There was a significant gap (in the fossil record) between birds like Archaeopteryx that had a more dinosaur-like type of ...

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

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, external, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur ...

Remembering that birds are part of the dinosaur radiation ... Read more in A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils, which is available from Smithsonian Books. Visit Smithsonian Books’ website ...