Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...

This bird's big beak more closely resembles those of modern birds. This is a curious finding. Modern birds are much more diverse than ancient ones when it comes to their faces.

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped on top of a tee box to survey its surroundings. I quickly focused my ...

Our two pieces of recent research identified that, in response to warming, more than 100 species of Australian birds have ...

Secret Mathematical Rule Has Shaped Bird Beaks For 200 Million Years Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size - from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished. So the birds that were the winners in the game of natural selection lived to reproduce. The big-beaked finches just happened to be the ones ...

Birds fit the bill for answering some of the biggest questions about evolution.. While the general principles behind evolution by natural selection have been known for more than 160 years, the ...

HILO, Hawai‘i (KHON2) — A Hawaiian hawk, or ‘io, was euthanized after being found “emaciated” and missing part of its beak on Hawai‘i Island. Recently, a woman reported finding the ...