What’s small, winged, and slams its beak into trees? If you said a woodpecker, you’re not entirely wrong. But woodpeckers don ...

A lappet-faced vulture displays its impressive size and strength during a close encounter with the wildlife handler. The ...

A pretty yellow bird—but look at that beak! With the Akiapōlāʻau, it’s not just the name that’s special. When tackling twigs, ...

An injured southern ground hornbill at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam has received two 3D-printed prostheses to replace the broken upper and lower parts of its beak. And with great success. The bird was ...

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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 ...

Imagine that you hand is made of jelly and you have to carve a roast using a knife that has no handle. The bare metal blade would rip through your hypothetical hand as easily as it would through the ...