Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

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

New studies show that bird and mammal brains evolved separately, with distinct genetic programs and developmental mechanisms.

The pallium is the brain region where the neocortex forms in mammals, the part responsible for cognitive and complex ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

Phylogeny for birds Under this system, organisms are grouped into "clades," which are distinct branches on the phylogenetic tree that include all the descendants of a most recent shared ancestor ...

That may come as no surprise, given that birds are dinosaurs ... and it works by grouping animals that have similar physical characteristics. Linnaeus determined that all reptiles share two ...

The official count, a legal requirement of the zoo's licence, saw more than 500 animals across 145 species totted up. A ...

The zoo authorities used to feed 35 kgs of chicken and about 140 eggs to carnivores, including tigers, lions, panther and ...

In 2019, scientists rediscovered a species of miniature deer long lost to science within the dry coastal forests of southern ...