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Modern birds belong to a clade called Neornithes, but during the age of the dinosaurs another clade existed: the enantiornithines, a very diverse group of early birds that paralleled the adaptive radiation of modern birds and became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. Few fossils of enantiornithines with complete preserved skulls have been found, leaving a large gap in the understanding of the evolution of bird neuroanatomy. Now a complete and undistorted skull of a starling-sized enantiornith