The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in “song neighborhoods” made of two to ...

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.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A... Small fossil has big implications for bird brain ...

Modern science reveals birds possess remarkable cognitive abilities rivaling mammals. These intelligent birds solve complex ...

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists at ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of the ...