Out in the wild, staying alive is not only about speed or raw strength. It is about using whatever nature hands you. For ...

It was a spirited debate between friends that surfaced every time we got together. It was not about politics, the economy or the weather, but the more significant question, do birds have bills or ...

WASHINGTON -- Call them "qucks" and "duails." With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck's flat bill with a quail's pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But the experiment ...

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 ...

Look at a bird’s beak to see what family the bird belongs to and the kind of food it eats. Seeing a bird with a long, needlelike beak would tell us it’s in the hummingbird family that probes flowers ...