For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when ...

Birds can have beak abnormalities for a number of reasons, including physical trauma, poor nutrition, exposure to pesticides ...

Rescuer Mandy Kocevar, 45, told Newsweek that Winnie's "previous owner's health was the main cause contributing to the ...

The toucan beak isn't just beautiful, it's also an adjustable thermal radiator that the bird uses to warm and cool itself. Researchers have discovered that the toucan can heat and cool its bill at an ...

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 ...

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. It's ...

Read our interview with Beak about the new album here. Beak>, the trio of Geoff Barrow (Portishead), Billy Fuller (Robert Plant’s Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs), have surprise ...

LAFAYETTE, N.Y. -- The Wood Brothers were the official guinea pigs for Beak & Skiff's revamped summer music series, which launched in 2016. "Aren't we all lucky to be here?" Oliver Wood asked 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 ...

Until recently, Beak> have pretty much done one thing. The Bristol-based trio, led by drummer Geoff Barrow of Portishead, make music like a head trip in a sensory deprivation chamber: dark, watery, ...