An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. The fossil was unearthed in the ...

By analyzing the structure of bird skulls using advanced digital technology, researchers at Flinders University in South Australia and the University of Lethbridge in Canada have developed a new way ...

No, in fact, quite the opposite — they probably gained a few brain cells by free-form soldering this beautiful chirping bird pendant at 0603 instead. The circuit is a standard BEAM project built ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that ...

They achieve this by creating digital ‘endocasts’—3D models of the space inside a bird’s skull where the brain once resided. Published in Biology Letters, the study—led by the ‘Bones and Diversity Lab ...

This bird’s legacy remained shrouded in mystery for decades, but a recent discovery by an international team of researchers has brought it back into the spotlight. Led by scientists from the Martin ...

This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached heights of 4.6 feet (1.40 meters).

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists at ...

AUSTINTOWN — When Stephanie Hughes was 8 years old, she found the skull of a seagull near her property. From that day on, she was hooked. Hughes, an Ohio certified volunteer naturalist ...

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The team scanned the skulls of the 136 bird species for which they also had microscopic brain sections or literature data. This allowed them to determine if the volume of two crucial brain parts ...