The new skull does provide rare insight into bird skull anatomy just before the extinction event, says Daniel Field, a paleontologist with the University of Cambridge who was not an author on the ...

Advanced micro-CT scanning technology was used to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain ... birds over 130 million years ago. The brain anatomy of Navaornis raises questions about how these ...

For more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the thunder bird species Genyornis ... a professor of anatomy and paleontology at Ohio University who ...

Key aspects of early bird evolution have been difficult to ... Our discovery provides long-sought insights into the detailed anatomy of the skull and brain of early birds, thus adding crucial ...

The skull had adaptations that made the massive bird well-equipped to thrive near bodies of water, the study authors write in the Conversation. Certain anatomy, including nostrils that were far ...

The complete skull has been preserved almost intact ... which lets us fully appreciate the anatomy of this early bird," said Navalón. "Modern birds have some of the most advanced cognitive ...