Birds are some of the most colorful and ... The Tooth-Billed Pigeon has a weird-looking, bright-red beak with tooth-like protrusions on the lower mandible. Sometimes referred to as a Little ...
but the bird has that overlong curved beak that makes it a bit too weird for the list. The flamingo is also too funny-looking. Other birds with strange-looking or outsized beaks, with notable ...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and ...
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.
New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...
In Alaska during the mid-1990s, bird experts noticed an uptick in overgrown, warped beaks among black-capped chickadees. Now, using high-throughput RNA sequencing, researchers at the University of ...
Did you know that birds are evolved from dinosaurs. All birds lay eggs and they can look very different. They all have beaks, feathers, two legs and two wings. Most even have special feathers on ...