Every day, scientists uncover startling new information that reshapes our understanding of the ancient world. The latest groundbreaking discovery concerns a bird from the late Cretaceous period with a ...
Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...
Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...
Birds can fly, which if you think about it is one of the most popular superpowers among comic book characters. Flying really isn’t considered a superpower for warm-blooded vertebrates. Though, a ...
A 67-million-year-old bird skull has overturned an established theory about how modern birds evolved. Unlike most modern birds, the flightless group that includes ostriches and emus can’t move their ...
A new bird fossil helps scientists better understand convergent evolution of complex anatomy and provides new insights into the evolution of face and beak shape in a forerunner of modern birds.
Birds can fly, which if you think about it is one of the most popular superpowers among comic book characters. Flying really isn’t considered a superpower for warm-blooded vertebrates. Though, a ...
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 ...
The material a bird selects for its nest depends on the dimensions of its beak, according to researchers. The material a bird selects for its nest depends on the dimensions of its beak, according to ...
Kiwis, ibises and sandpipers share this sensory power with birds that lived millions of years ago. By Veronique Greenwood The ibis and the kiwi are dogged diggers, probing in sand and soil for worms ...
With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...
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