The sculpture shows a stout, short-headed bird with a round beak and long tail. According to Archaeology, the figurine is believed to be the earliest three-dimensional artistic object discovered ...

Some birds have evolved incredibly unusual beaks, showcasing nature's ability to adapt form to function. The black skimmer has a long and thin beak, featuring a lower mandible that extends beyond ...

Since the birds point their beaks downward during the feeding process, gravity must be overcome to get those droplets from the tip of the bird's long beak to its mouth. Until now, scientists have ...

“Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird— it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak,” says Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator of ...

The figurines themselves are really quite small. The bird is the longest item, being 4.7 centimetres from the tip of the beak to the rear tail feathers. It was found in two pieces at the cave complex ...