A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

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 ...

A raven’s brain may weigh just over half an ounce, but it accounts for 1.3 percent of the bird’s body mass. The size of ravens’ and crows’ brains is even more impressive when you consider ...

According to the press release, it didn’t matter whether the bird hit all the notes or missed some — any attempt at singing triggered the brain's reward pathways. Additionally, the better the bird ...

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 ...