A team of animal behaviorists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, working with a colleague from ...

With plenty of artificial nectar available, Anna’s hummingbirds have expanded their range northward and their beaks have ...

Our team previously discovered a new rule of biology that explains the shape and growth of many pointed structures, including teeth, horns, hooves, shells and, of course, beaks. This simple ...

In just about 20 years, the beaks of Anna’s hummingbird became longer and more tapered, according to a new study published in ...

Stomp dancing, head jerking, chattering, and skimming create swirling water patterns that direct brine shrimp and small ...

Most carnivores have teeth to grasp and eat prey, so marine animals with teeth are not uncommon. Sharks, dolphins, eels, ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size ... It is rare to find rules in biology that apply across all species. But when a rule is found, it can help to detect patterns in nature.

According to a recent study in Global Change Biology, a journal focused on environmental ... changed the size and shape of the birds' beaks. The range of the hummingbird also spread from the ...

Until now, that mechanism was believed to serve one main purpose: to get a lot of pollen onto the bird's beak. Recently, however, an international team of scientists began to wonder if there could ...

These birds are manifesting storms of swirling tornadoes, using their webbed feet and angled L-shaped beak to help them capture prey. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Case in point: in a new study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers found fossilized ... and teeth only at the tip of its beak,” says Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator ...