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

Researchers discovered that animal color vision evolved long before colorful fruits and flowers, with warning and sexual ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

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 ...

Navaornis is likened to a sort of Rosetta Stone for decyphering the evolution of bird brains.

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 team of scientists, John J. Wiens from the University of Arizona, analyzed the evolution of color vision in animals. Their ...

“The nervous system of a virtual lifeform is a pipeline computer where, every moment, data from sense organs passes through a network of neurons and finally contracts a muscle in a specific body part.

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They have held a mirror to humanity, revealing our strengths and weaknesses through their own clever behaviors, organ systems ...