Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...

New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of the ...