This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

Its bizarre beak makes more sense upside down, as it is when the bird is filter feeding, head inverted. For most of my life, I didn’t pay attention to birds. Only in my 40s did I become a person ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

This gives birds an evolutionary advantage by literally expanding their palates to eat different kinds of foods or use their beaks as a multifunctional tool. “Having a wiggly head like this really ...

This bird measures between 25 and 26 cm, with males reaching 26 cm and females 25 cm. For a bird of paradise, it is small but ...

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.