There’s something magical about catching the sunrise through the semi translucent beak of a bird. It’s not just a moment, ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

Scientists at Yale have pieced together what they think is the first bird beak ever to have evolved. It belongs to Ichthyornis dispar, which lived in North America nearly 100 million years ago.

Birds with bigger beaks were more successful at cracking ... ROSEMARY GRANT: I had more of a genetics background and Peter more of an ecological background. But we were both interested in the ...

Yet a new study published last week in the journal Nature reveals living evidence for this fact, no fossils ... HERE'S THE BACKGROUND — The first evidence that birds are dinosaurs came with ...

“Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak,” Jingmai O’Connor, a study co-author and the ...

And what influences a bird’s vocal range, and the kinds of sounds it can make? Beak size? Body size ... of course omnipresent background of insect noise. FLORA LICHTMAN: Can you use computer analysis ...

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.

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