painted or sculpted in Egyptian art. Perhaps the most striking is the pied kingfisher, commonly called a helldiver, with its black and white plumage, shaggy topknot and slender beak. The bird ...

Perching birds with long bills might use them like extension poles to grab fruit or bugs. Here are ten birds, or types of ...

The Pelagornis belonged to the family Pelagornithidae. These birds existed from the Late Paleocene age to the Late Pliocene ...

Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a wading bird with long legs and a long beak). He was the ...

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 ...

What's more, this rule even describes beak shape in the long-gone ancestors of birds—the dinosaurs. We are excited to share our findings, now published in the journal iScience. By studying beaks ...