An article published in the journal “Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences” describes a digital reconstruction of the brain of two species belonging to the family of what are called elephant birds. Christopher Torres of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleague Julia Clarke subjected skulls belonging to the species Aepyornis maximus and Aepyornis hildebrandti to CT scans to analyze the structure of their brains concluding that they were nocturnal and perhaps blind animals.