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

Hoping to help trace the history of how velociraptors evolved into birds, researchers at Harvard and Yale may have tracked a key beak... How Bird Beaks Got Their Start As Dinosaur Snouts Scientists ...

A study found that only a small percentage of bird beak shape variation is dependent on diet, with other factors like display and nest construction probably playing parts too. The shape of the beaks ...

Scientists at Yale have pieced together what they think is the first bird beak ever to have evolved. It belongs to Ichthyornis dispar, which lived in North America nearly 100 million years ago. It's ...

For more than a century the only known skulls of the ancient bird Ichthyornis were either fragmentary, smashed flat or both. Now, high-tech analyses of four fossilized three-dimensional skulls provide ...

WASHINGTON -- Call them "qucks" and "duails." With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck's flat bill with a quail's pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But the experiment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research suggests that the dark-eyed junco songbird experienced rapid evolution while college campuses were shuttered during the ...

We get captivated by a bird’s plumage and may not think to notice its beak, which is critical to the bird’s identity. I’ve often heard people yell “flamingo!” when they see a pink-plumed bird feeding ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals with the best shot at surviving were those with wings. Now, new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Whether stubby, slender, spoon-shaped, flattened or sharply pointed, bird beaks can be highly ...