A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young, cleaning ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska’s largest city with ...

If you wanted to know what the first bird beak looked like, today's your lucky day. The Ichthyornis dispar was the subject of a paper published this week. Ichthyornis dispar is the name of a creature ...

Michael Hanson/ Yale University One of the fragments of Ichthyornis dispar skull the researchers examined for this study was found over a century ago, but scientists hadn’t put together the pieces of ...

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The highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in wild bird populations has been detected in Alaska and the Northwest, according to a new study. "The prevalence of these strange deformities is ...

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, and the ...

Scientists already knew that birds evolved from dinosaurs. But thanks to a Yale-led study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they know what the first bird beak looked like during that ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — When Carolyn Burgin saw a bird with something stuck to its beak, she called her neighbor Pat Mead to check it out. "I saw it from a distance and I thought, 'is that a big fish he’s ...