While the conical shape is typical, there can be variations depending on the size and type of seeds the bird consumes. For example, some birds may have slightly finer or more robust beaks based on ...

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

They use the curved hook at the end of their beaks to help them methodically hunt for caterpillars. Fill your favorite backyard feeder with sunflower seeds and wait for birds with cone-shaped ...

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.

“normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ ...

In Alaska during the mid-1990s, bird experts noticed an uptick in overgrown, warped beaks among black-capped chickadees. Now, using high-throughput RNA sequencing, researchers at the University of ...

In the space of just 1.85 inches (4.7 centimeters), someone painstakingly carved the bird's eyes, conical beak, short legs, tail and a series of lines representing feathers. Based on the shape of ...