A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Quickest News Paleontologists are flocking to the recently discovered bird-like dinosaur fossil named Fujianvenator prodigiosus. Unearthed in 2022, this fossil revealed surprising details that turn ...

China is a Jurassic treasure trove going big with fossil discoveries. But will dinosaurs have the same pulling power as ...

The vast numbers of new dinosaurs that have been documented since the 1960s are equally exciting. New dinosaurs have of ...

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 ...

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 ...

To do so, they went back through the fossil record, looking at a variety of different animals who were on the path to birds. In Marasuchus, a close relative of dinosaurs, the researchers found that ...

The fossil specimen, described as "exquisitely ... brain of the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx—the earliest bird-like dinosaur—and modern birds was practically non-existent.