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 ...

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Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak (Fig ... revealed fine skin details and other ...

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 are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their ...

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.

“In our field there is this presumption that the beak shape ... in birds is quite correlated with what they eat and how they eat it—so, their feeding ecologies.” Guillermo Navalón, a PhD ...

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 ...

Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird ... beak is, anatomically, and how it got that way either evolutionarily or ...