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Palaeontology:

A whiff of early brain evolution

Category: Evolutionary Biology

Two tiny fossilized skulls provide clues about the events that led to early evolution of the mammalian brain

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Anatomy of a 300 million year-old brain

Category: Palaeontology

Nervous tissue is extremely fragile, and so is very well protected. The brain, which has a jelly-like consistency, is encased in the skull, and is surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid, which acts to cushion it against blows that might cause...

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Brain & behaviour of dinosaurs

Category: Palaeontology

Bones have been big news recently, following the publication of two papers which document remarkable fossil finds. First, a group of palaeontologists led by Phil Gingerich of the University of Michigan described Maiacetus inuus, a primitive whale which lived in...

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