Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs helped researchers extrapolate what its brain would have looked like: big olfactory bulbs would have meant that ...

(CN) — Birds didn’t just inherit their dinosaur lineage — they rewired it. That’s according to researchers in a study that say as their brains grew, birds’ skulls became more flexible, unlocking new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized ...

From emus to woodpeckers, modern birds show remarkable diversity in skull shape and size, often hypothesized to be the result of a sudden hastening of evolution following the mass extinction that ...

Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds, in what's now China. The fossils that have been found are finely ...