Bird brain from age of dinosaurs to help Cambridge researchers - BBC News
11 hours ago · The study aimed to digitally reconstruct the brain of the bird, which it has named Navaornis hestiae, to determine the evolutionary origins of the modern avian brain. Dr Guillermo Navalón, the co ...
‘One of a kind’ fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of bird ...
1 day ago · Navaornis is a member of an extinct group of early birds called Enantiornithes, or the ‘opposite birds’. This group diverged from modern birds more than 130 million years ago, but had complex feathers and were likely competent flyers. However, the brain anatomy of Navaornis poses a new question. Without an expanded cerebellum, it is ...
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian ...
1 day ago · Future studies may reveal how Navaornis interacted with its environment, helping to answer broader questions about the evolution of bird cognition over time. Navaornis is the most recent in a ...
'One of a kind' fossil reveals evolution of bird brains - RTÉ
1 day ago · The Navaornis discovery filled in a gap of 70 million years in the understanding of the evolution of avian neuroanatomy, dating back to the earliest-known bird Archaeopteryx, which lived in Europe ...
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian …
1 day ago · The fossil fills a 70-million-year gap in our understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds living today. Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird-like ...
Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains
1 day ago · In both age and evolutionary development, the new species, named Navaornis hestiae, is almost midway between the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, Archaeopteryx, which lived 150 million years ago ...
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian ...
2 days ago · Navaornis, Credit: Stephanie Abramowicz. Before this discovery, knowledge of the evolutionary transition between the brains of Archaeopteryx and modern birds was practically non-existent. “This represents nearly 70 million years of avian evolution in which all the major lineages of Mesozoic birds originated - including the first representatives of …
Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian …
Oct 30, 2024 · A dearth of Mesozoic-aged, three-dimensional fossils hinders understanding of the origin of the distinctive skull and brain of modern (crown) birds 1. Here we report Navaornis hestiae gen. et sp ...
Field Palaeo Research group describes a ‘key piece in the puzzle of ...
2 days ago · The fossil fills a 70-million-year gap in our understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx - the earliest known bird-like dinosaur - and birds living today. Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird-like ...
Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution
1 day ago · Now, a newly discovered fossil provides the most complete glimpse to date of the brains of the ancestral birds that once flew above the dinosaurs. The species was named Navaornis hestiae, and it's described in the journal Nature. Piecing together how bird brains evolved has been a challenge. First, most of the fossil evidence dates back to tens ...
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