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, cleaning ...

Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak. Early beak evolution remains understudied. Using an ...

The shape of the beaks of different species of Galapagos finches played an important part in Darwin’s conception of natural selection. “In our field there is this presumption that the beak shape ...

A new study has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over time. A study, led by the University of Bristol, has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over ...

Whether stubby, slender, spoon-shaped, flattened or sharply pointed, bird beaks can be highly specialized, and now, researchers have found that some even have built-in AC. For the first time, ...

Scientists already knew that birds evolved from dinosaurs. But thanks to a Yale-led study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they know what the first bird beak looked like during that ...

Now, researchers have discovered that an iconic bird that inspired the likes of Charles Darwin bore the very first beak. The team reconstructed the ancient beaks of Ichthyornis dispar in a study ...

When a peregrine falcon turned up injured outside Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, he inspired all hands-on-deck care.

Certain birds in the U.K. have longer beaks than their non-U.K. brethren of the same species. Evolutionary biologists suggest that it’s the British people’s fondness for setting out bird feeders that ...

A study, led by the University of Bristol, has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over time. The observation that Galapagos finch species possessed different beak shapes to ...

Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak (Fig. 1). Early beak evolution remains understudied.