When it comes to fascinating animals, the ostrich stands out—not only because of its size but also due to a unique feature: ...

Their eyes are about the size of a billiard ball, measuring five centimeters across, which is five times larger than a human ...

Ravens are specialized feeders on the carcasses of large mammals such as moose during the harsh winter months of North America. The birds roost together at night on a tree, arriving noisily from ...

a brain area that is required for learning and producing songs — of swamp sparrows. When they played recordings of a bird's own songs, they found that a large proportion of HVC neurons that ...

Its cerebellum, a brain structure that in living birds helps coordinate motor control ... It lived alongside huge long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs and large meat-eating dinosaurs.

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 ...

and their later relatives (birds). Troodon had a large brain for its relatively small size and was probably among the smartest dinosaurs. Its brain is proportionally larger than those found in ...

Dr Audet and collaborators then measured brain size in their study birds. They found that the most advanced vocal learners and problem solvers had larger brains relative to their body size.