Bird beaks have a variety of shapes and purposes. Here are common bird beak types you should look for and how they help birds ...

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 ...

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 ...

A newly discovered dinosaur fossil reveals the ancient creature may have had more in common with modern-day birds than other members of the species. The dinosaur, known as Oksoko avarsan, had two ...

Ichthyornis was an ancient bird that lived in what is now the mid-west of North America between 100 and 66 million years ago. It was a seabird about the size of a tern or gull, with a 60 centimetre ...

Scientists have documented for the first time parrots using their beaks to swing across the underside of branches like monkeys move from tree to tree. Using high-speed video analysis, researchers ...

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 ...