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.

The seagull-sized bird had a beak and a brain much like modern birds ... most skull fossils are "squashed flat during the fossilisation process". He said the "extraordinary new specimen", which ...

The flat beaks of ducks typically have soft edges for sensing food in the water and comblike lamellae inside to sieve out insects, seeds, and other morsels. (Photographed at Sylvan Heights Bird ...

Indian wildlife enthusiasts and forest officials have been trying to rescue a rare bird whose beak has been trapped shut by a plastic ring. The black-necked stork was first spotted with the ring ...

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird feeders ... and flat-topped head are good field marks. Eye is close to the beak.