[HN Gopher] Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots o...
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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian
intelligence
Author : gmays
Score : 73 points
Date : 2024-11-18 15:24 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| bbor wrote:
| A) incredible article, one of the few where I didn't feel
| compelled to give up and find the underlying paper. Well written,
| beautiful diagrams, appreciably concise. Thanks for posting!
|
| B) The image of ~starlings hanging out with dinosaurs blew my
| mind. Talk about an odd juxtaposition! But I'm no dinosaur nerd,
| and haven't seen the new generation of shows.
|
| C) I just _have_ to nitpick this to defend my buddies:
| Modern birds have some of the most advanced cognitive
| capabilities in the animal kingdom, comparable only with mammals.
|
| Maybe true for vertebrates, but octopuses deserve a spot on that
| list!
| NeuroCoder wrote:
| The figures in the nature article are worth it. Even my non-
| nerdy wife thought it was kind of interesting.
| Sniffnoy wrote:
| Reading this, I had to wonder what was "opposite" about these
| "opposite birds". Apparently it's how the shoulder blade
| (scapula) connects to the coracoid bone (a bone not present in
| therian mammals). From Wikipedia's article on Enantiornithes:
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| > Specifically, in the Enantiornithes, the scapula is concave and
| dish-shaped at this joint, and the coracoid is convex. In modern
| birds, the coracoscapular joint has a concave coracoid and convex
| scapula.
| abc_lisper wrote:
| Enantiornithes is a huge family. Kinda suprising why they
| didn't survive the meteor but birds did
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