Bird Bill vs Bird Beak A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for ...

Beak treatment is the physical removal of the top and bottom part of the beak of a bird. It is commonly practised in commercial layer flocks to reduce damage caused by birds to each other later in ...

The shape of the beaks of different species of Galapagos finches played an important part in Darwin’s conception of natural selection. “In our field there is this presumption that the beak shape ...

Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. Just don’t call them dino-chickens. “Our goal here was to understand the ...

Now, researchers have discovered that an iconic bird that inspired the likes of Charles Darwin bore the very first beak. The team reconstructed the ancient beaks of Ichthyornis dispar in a study ...

Michael Hanson/ Yale University One of the fragments of Ichthyornis dispar skull the researchers examined for this study was found over a century ago, but scientists hadn’t put together the pieces of ...

We're not sure if it got the worm, but it definitely was an early bird. Scientists say they found the earliest known beak from the fossils of a seabird that lived 85 million years ago — a pivotal link ...