Advanced micro-CT scanning technology was used to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain. Brain anatomy raises questions At first look, Navaornis’s skull looked similar to a small pigeon.

The fossil was exceptionally well-preserved and was named Navaornis hestiae.The bird was roughly the size of a starling and lived about 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil before the mass ...

Small bird fossil fills gap in dinosaur to bird brain evolution Birds descended from the dinosaurs, ... The species was named Navaornis hestiae, and it's described in the journal Nature.

Item 1 of 4 Three views are shown of the brain of the starling-sized bird Navaornis hestiae, which lived 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now Brazil, in this ...

Life Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains. Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable "one-of-a-kind" fossil. The prehistoric species, named Navaornis hestiae, lived ...

Archaeopteryx is the earliest bird-like dinosaur that we know of. It lived 150 million years ago, but researchers don’t know much about how the bird brain evolved from then to now. Navaornis skeleton.

The research team determined the bird — Navaornis hestiae — was from the Mesozoic Era (about 252 million to 66 million years ago) and was roughly the size of a starling. The bird likely lived around ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs (Archaeopteryx) and modern birds.