These meat-eating birds, have sharp, hooked beaks that pierce, pluck and pull, allowing them to tear up their meals. Without this beak shape, raptors wouldnt be able to tear their meat into bite ...

Birds are susceptible to many health conditions, from vitamin deficiencies to respiratory infections. Yet, scissor beak is among the most obvious because it’s a clear deformity of a bird’s ...

Scientists have grown dinosaur-like snouts on chicken embryos, revealing how the bird beak may have evolved. Birds are thought to have evolved from dinosaurs, but have very different jaws. Bird ...

Secret Mathematical Rule Has Shaped Bird Beaks For 200 Million Years Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size - from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

By studying beaks in light of this mathematical rule, we can understand how the faces of birds and other dinosaurs evolved over 200 million years. We can also find out why, in rare instances ...

Scientists have observed the highest rate of beak abnormalities ever recorded in wild bird populations in Alaska and the Northwest, a study by two United States federal scientists says.

After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin growth on his severely injured beak. According to World Bird Sanctuary ...