Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers to get energy from nectar. The beak also acts like a saber to snatch insects in midair ...

“Imagine what a bird like this could have done, the damage it could have done with just a strike of this massive skull and beak. So that's obviously one very easy way of imagining this is how ...

Astonishingly, feeding behavior didn’t influence beak characteristics as much as initially thought. The researchers observed several instances of polarizing foraging behaviors in birds with ...

In that moment, they realized this 3-inch-long (8.5 centimeters) skull — so small it could fit in the palm of your hand — had "a beak never before seen in the Mesozoic," study co-researcher ...

After the famous toucan received a prosthetic replacement, it's story has helped spark a national movement against harming animals in Costa Rica, where a new anti-abuse bill is also gaining traction.

An artist's illustration of Longipteryx chaoyangensis, a prehistoric bird with incredibly strong teeth right at the tip of its beak. The species is among the earliest known birds.

Did this early bird have a beak? Ichthyornis was an ancient bird that lived in what is now the mid-west of North America between 100 and 66 million years ago. It was a seabird about the size of a ...

How Bird Beaks Got Their Start As Dinosaur Snouts : ... This group of meat-eaters had long snouts, small brains and eyes, ... the researchers have been studying various kinds of animal embryos, ...

Some roughly 120-million-year-old seeds are telling a new story about what the Earth’s first birds ate. Paleontologists found the seeds in the fossilized stomachs of an early bird species ...

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species ...