One of the most exciting birds to spot in Costa Rica is the toucan. With their huge colorful beaks and quirky personalities, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Originally described as “grossly monstrous” by the Comte de Buffon, the toucan's beak was theorized by Charles Darwin to be related to sexual selection. The toucans with the biggest bills ...

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 ...

A toucan can thank the marvels of 3-D printing for a life-changing procedure. It's not clear how the bird named Tieta lost the upper part of her beak, but veterinarians at a Brazilian wildlife ...

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 ...