“This represents nearly 70 million years of avian evolution in which all ... “This discovery shows that some of the birds flying over the heads of dinosaurs already had a fully modern skull ...
The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...
“But evolution acts on all parts of the body, great and small, so structures that have been ignored are often gold mines for new insights and untold tales.” “We found that the very features that ...