Due to popular demand and a limited run the authors of the Cephalopod Beak Guide for the Southern Ocean have their book freely available for download on the internet! The guide is published by the ...

In Roblox Beaks, you take out your trusty rifle, aim at birds flying in the sky, and shoot them with tranquilizers (don’t worry, you don’t kill them). Each time you capture a bird, you gain some XP, ...

Over the years, scientists have learned about literally thousands of different bird species, and each one sports a distinctive beak shape. But why do bird beaks come in so many different shapes and ...

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 ...

The long, sharp beaks of hummingbirds serve a purpose other than probing flowers for nectar, a new study found. Male long-billed hermits, which are large hummingbirds native to Central and South ...

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 large ...

..we interrupt this post so that Dr. M can perform the rare dance of the geek and squeal in delight…by Jose Xavier and Yves Cherel and published by British Antarctic Survey was published recently as a ...

Cockatoos appear to be able to play golf, a study has claimed. Austrian researchers wanted to test the extent to which the birds use primate-level tool-using abilities in a test inspired by golf. In ...

A group of scientists said Tuesday that they have managed to turn back the evolution clock. The researchers said they successfully manipulated proteins in embryonic chicken cells to turn the bird’s ...

More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers. A team attached an artificial beak to the ...