they know what the first bird beak looked like during that evolutionary journey. The beak belongs to an Ichthyornis dispar from about 85 million years ago. Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, the principal ...

An organ that allows some birds to detect the movement of hidden prey by plunging their beaks into the ground seems to have been present in early birds 70 million years ago, and probably first ...

In what may be one of the weirdest animal mash-ups, scientists have found the 68 million-year-old fossilized skull of an early bird with a Velociraptor-like face and a toucan-like beak ...

Some great tits in the United Kingdom are getting long in the beak — and it may have something to do with a British fondness for bird feeders ... we have seen the signs in Darwin’s finches ...