Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

"We expected to find either dental development typical of early hominids, close to that of the great apes ... Then, as the amount of information to be transmitted increased, evolution would have ...

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.

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 ...

[Related: Giraffe grandmas help keep herds going.] The findings in this study show some evidence that biocultural ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...