💨 Abstract

A well-preserved fossil of a bird species named Navaornis hestiae from Brazil, dating back 80 million years, has provided insights into the evolution of bird brains. The bird, which belonged to an extinct group called enantiornithines, had a brain that showed a mix of modern and archaic features, with some structures more advanced than the earliest birds but less so than today's birds.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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