Not all birds of this beak type eat large seeds, though. The American goldfinch , for example, loves thistle, or Nyjer. Its small beak is perfect for tiny, tough thistle seeds.

These birds with big beaks are found in Southeast Asia, the Malay Peninsula, and Indonesia. They like wet, tall evergreen forests , and tend to nest in old-growth trees that extend above the ...

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 ...

An illustration of Ichthyornis dispar is pictured alongside the beak reconstruction. Michael Hanson and Bhart-Anjan S Bhullar. The reconstructions reveal what bird beaks looked like when they ...

This bird's big beak more closely resembles those of modern birds. This is a curious finding. Modern birds are much more diverse than ancient ones when it comes to their faces.

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their ...

In 1867, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley proposed that birds with fused upper beaks had maintained this trait from ancient ancestors, and that jointed upper beaks – which allow the top beak to ...

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 ...