In what may be one of the weirdest animal mash-ups, scientists have found the 68 million-year-old fossilized skull of an early bird with a Velociraptor-like face and a toucan-like beak ...

When you’re a toucan, you need your beak. It’s a pretty important part of your identity. Tieta was a toucan with a big problem. She was missing about half of her upper beak. Thanks to some ...

Engineers Discover Why Toucan Beaks Are Models Of Lightweight Strength Date: November 30, 2005 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: In a paper to be published Dec. 1 in Acta ...

Grecia, a Costa Rican toucan named after its ... to take 3D scans of Grecia’s damaged anatomy before reverse engineering an attachable prosthetic. The beak, designed throughout 2015, needed ...

The toucan's colourful - and comical - beak has made it one of the world's most recognisable birds. Now researchers have solved the mystery of why their bills are so large. A study has found that ...

Tieta was rescued from an animal fair in Rio de Janeiro In a ground-breaking project, a Brazilian toucan which lost the upper part of its beak while being trafficked has been fitted with a ...

No one knows how or why someone cut off the beak of this toucan, but the bird arrived at the Zoo Ave Rescue Center in San Jose missing most of it's top beak. Without it, Grecia isn't able to feed ...

They use their beak to reach food far out on branches or deep into tree cavities. Finding and catching food is aided by a toucan’s long tongue, which can measure up to 5.9 inches. Aside from ...

Remember the toucan in Costa Rica who had its upper beak hacked off by a perpetrator who was never found? Well, here's an update to a story we first told you about last year. And, spoiler alert ...

An injured toucan found on the side of the road is now the owner of a new 3D-printed beak. "Tuc Tuc" was missing a large portion of its lower beak when it was rescued, so Cícero Moraes ...

Grecia, a Costa Rican toucan named after its ... to take 3D scans of Grecia’s damaged anatomy before reverse engineering an attachable prosthetic. The beak, designed throughout 2015, needed ...