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 ...

The toucan beak isn't just beautiful, it's also an adjustable thermal radiator that the bird uses to warm and cool itself. Researchers have discovered that the toucan can heat and cool its bill at ...

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 ...

A scrappy toucan’s beak outlook is looking much better. Grecia, a Costa Rican toucan, is set to receive a prosthetic beak after his was mutilated during an attack by a group of young kids.

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 ...

According to the American Bird Conservancy, the keel-billed toucan is known for its colorful beak, which takes up about a third of the bird’s length. The bird is native to tropical areas of ...

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 ...