Shoebills, which can measure nearly 5 feet and are named for the shape of their enormous beaks, are dinosaur-like and imposing at close quarters. The accompanying footage, showing a shoebill that had ...

The shape of the beaks of different species of Galapagos finches played an important part in Darwin’s conception of natural selection. “In our field there is this presumption that the beak shape ...

A falcon’s shattered beak was repaired using human dental techniques in a remarkable bird rescue. Learn more about it here.

She welcomed her flock into the world by bathing, waterproofing and feeding her babies using her prosthetic beak. This mother goose rescued from the brink of death only months ago, but her life has ...

Michael Hanson/ Yale University One of the fragments of Ichthyornis dispar skull the researchers examined for this study was found over a century ago, but scientists hadn’t put together the pieces of ...

It was a spirited debate between friends that surfaced every time we got together. It was not about politics, the economy or the weather, but the more significant question, do birds have bills or ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their large ...

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Every day, scientists uncover startling new information that reshapes our understanding of the ancient world. The latest groundbreaking discovery concerns a bird from the late Cretaceous period with a ...

Data shows new information about the evolution of bird beaks, report scientists. In their study, 3D scans were logged online by members of the public across the world. Citizen scientists and bird ...