Sometimes nature surprises us with extraordinary products of evolution. One prime example is the extraordinary sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera). These relatively small birds have carved a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. an illustration of a small bird with light brown, black, and white plummage. it has a long beak with sharp teeth The remains ...

A fossil skull from Spain reveals Gorgonavis alcyone, a 125-million-year-old bird that expands the known range of early long-beaked birds.

For paleontologists who study animals that lived long ago, fossilized remains tell only part of the story of an animal’s life. While a well-preserved skeleton can provide hints at what an ancient ...

Few people are familiar with this giant bird from Africa. It owes its name to its particularly striking beak, which is exceptionally large and long, resembling a shoe. PETBOOK introduces the ...