These are the flashiest, most specialized beaks around. The black skimmer has a truly unique bill among shorebirds, and really, among all North American birds. The beak is large yet very thin ...

Scientists have pieced together the skull of a strange ancient bird, revealing a primitive beak lined with teeth. The "transitional" bird sheds light on a pivotal point in the pathway from ...

Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. Using the ... Bhullar and his colleagues detail a novel approach to finding ...

Birds display an incredible diversity of beak shapes and sizes ... set up in the laboratory has shown that individuals at the edge of an invading colony readily evolve to be better at dispersing.

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 ...