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 ...

After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin ...

It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful beaks are one among those features that often ...

Yet, some early birds, including the ancestors of ... such as a beak devoid of teeth, a reduced maxillary contribution to the ...

“normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

Birds come in all shapes and sizes, but some stand out due to their extraordinary beaks! From tools for fishing to built-in filters, these six birds have some of the most unusual beak designs in ...

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled eggs. Many birds are able to fly using their wings, but others such as ostriches are flightless and unable to fly. Some birds like penguins ...