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, cleaning ...

Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to help them find food. This is the first time this ...

A new study, using the digitized scans of beaks from over 8,700 bird species, is shedding light on how evolution changes at different scales. While the general principles of evolution by natural ...

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 ...

Birds are present everywhere. You can find them on any continent, from Antarctica to South America. There are around 11,100 to 11,200 living bird species in the world. Here's an interesting fact for ...

Foreword / by Scott Weidensaul -- Introduction : It's tough to be a bird -- Birds, beaks, and bellies : the whys and wherefores of foraging -- Can you see UV? : how birds employ their sensory ...

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 ...

A Cretaceous-age, crow-sized bird from Madagascar would have sliced its way through the air wielding a large, blade-like beak and offers important new insights on the evolution of face and beak shape ...