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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Brainy Birds Out-Thought Doomed Dinosaurs?


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Superior brainpower could be why birds survived the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a January 2009 study suggests.

Three-dimensional scans of two 55-million-year-old seabird skulls (above) show the ancient bird brains were almost the same size as those in birds alive today.

Pictures courtesy Natural History Museum