Fossil Reveals Bird's Ancient Brain

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Fossil fills 70-million-year gap in understanding

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Researchers identified the well-preserved fossil bird from the Mesozoic Era , the age of 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.

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved.

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