This preservation allowed the researchers to use advanced micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird's skull and ...

"This fossil is truly so one-of-a-kind that I was awestruck ... describing it as a Rosetta Stone for understanding bird brain evolution, as reported by New Scientist. The discovery provides ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

In his 40 years at Rockefeller University, Nottebohm was (among other things) the first researcher to map the neural circuits used to learn and produce birdsong, the first to uncover large anatomic ...