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 ...

Beak shape and nest material use in birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2023; 378 (1884) DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0147 Cite This Page : ...

A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird ...

The North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) has a sensitive beak An organ that allows some birds to detect the movement of hidden prey by plunging their beaks into the ground seems to have been ...

‘Beak shape and nest material use in birds’ by Catherine Sheard, Sally E. Street, Caitlin Evans, Kevin N. Lala, Susan D. Healy, and Shoko Sugasawa in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ...