A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young ...

There’s something magical about catching the sunrise through the semi translucent beak of a bird. It’s not just a moment, ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size - from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

The latest groundbreaking discovery concerns a bird from the late Cretaceous period with a very big beak — so big it charts a new course in evolutionary history. In a study published Wednesday ...

It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful beaks are one among those features that often ...

Unlike most modern birds, the flightless group that includes ostriches and emus can’t move their upper beaks – a feature that, for the past 155 years, has been considered primitive.

Birds use their beaks to do a lot, such as build nests, gather food, or defend themselves; scientists use birds’ beaks to put them in one of two categories. For over a century, extant birds have ...

Over time, natural selection favored finches with sharper, longer beaks. These birds were better equipped to quickly and easily pierce the skin of their booby bird neighbors. Vampire finches still ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...