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 ...
Bird skulls evolved much more slowly and are far less diverse than those of dinosaurs, a new study suggests. The birds’ skulls may be more limited in their ability to adapt and specialise than their ...
Bird skulls and brains look like those of young dinosaurs, providing clues to their unique evolution and modern success. A new study, published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution, reveals that bird ...
An artist’s interpretation of Vegavis iaai diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. A new study in Nature describing a ...
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 ...
Video: Daniel J. Field, Michael Hanson, David Burnham, Laura E. Wilson, Kristopher Super, Dana Ehret, Jun A. Ebersole & Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar (2018) “Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic ...
A tiny extinct bird that lived in China about 120 million years ago had a skull similar to the fearsome T.Rex, despite their stark difference in size. Researchers analysed the freshly-discovered ...
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