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Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This ...

Fossil bird's skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight Date: October 24, 2022 Source: Field Museum Summary: Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil ...

Researchers think that this shift in skull mechanics may have helped shape bird evolution, setting them apart from their prehistoric ancestors. Researchers from the University of Chicago and the ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of today’s birds and avian diversity at the end of ...

One-Of-A-Kind' Skull Fossil From Brazil Reveals Bird Brain Evolution By Will Dunham (Reuters) - The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity ...

Nearly 20 years later, a 2011 Antarctic expedition turned up a bird skull that more recently was matched with Vegavis iaai. In an analysis published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers ...

“This study is the first time we're really getting at what this bird’s skull looked like, what its brain must have been like, which is really exciting.” The study’s first author, Han ...