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 life-size reconstruction of the giant flightless bird, Gastornis, photographed at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven on July 20, 2023 with a coconut in it's beak before being taken out of a crate.

Plus, these fish-eating birds had lots of teeth, all the way along their beaks, unlike how Longipteryx only has teeth at the very tip of its beak,” said O’Connor. “It just didn’t add up.” ...

Using data on nest materials for nearly 6,000 species of birds, a team based at the University of Bristol and the University of St Andrews utilised random forest models, a type of machine learning ...