An article published in the “Journal of Morphology” describes a research on the skull anatomy of Kawingasaurus fossilis, a therapsid that lived just over 250 million years ago. Paleontologist Michael Laaß of the Institute of General Zoology at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Dr. Anders Kaestner of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland examined a skull of this animal noting a structure similar to the neocortex, the most recent part of mammals’ brain.