Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing unprecedented insights into the evolution of avian intelligence.

The study aimed to digitally reconstruct the brain of the bird, which it has named Navaornis hestiae, to determine the evolutionary origins of the modern avian brain. Dr Guillermo Navalón ...

Its cerebellum, a brain structure that in living birds helps coordinate motor control during flight, was smaller than in today's avian species and more like Archaeopteryx's. But its brain was ...