New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

The pallium is the brain region where the neocortex forms in mammals, the part responsible for cognitive and complex functions that most distinguishes humans from other species. The pallium has tradit ...

Researchers have discovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China, featuring a short tail structure that ...