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 ...

Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies ...

After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin ...

Perching birds with long bills might use them like extension poles to grab fruit or bugs. Here are ten birds, or types of birds with some of the world’s longest beaks. These birds evolved to ...

Photographer Ryan Wilkes captured a hummingbird from a perspective that’s typically unseen. This slow-motion close-up of a ...

Birds' beaks, evolved for survival, showcase nature's perfect tools for tasks like catching fish and cracking seeds.

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

New research from the University of Chicago and University of Missouri shows how these physical changes affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their ...