Life Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution A skull bone from 67 million years ago reveals that ancestors of modern birds had jointed beaks, not immobile ones as ...

But thanks to a Yale-led study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they know what the first bird beak looked like during that evolutionary journey. The beak belongs to an Ichthyornis dispar ...

A third duck whose beak was removed was found at Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley, and animal advocates said they’re concerned the animals are being targeted and harmed by someone.

Although a fraction of the size of theropods like T. rex would evolve about 150 million years later, “their beak and claws surely [inspired] some fear to small animals” that co-existed with them.

Cantwell said eating with her beak was like using one chopstick. Beauty, a rescued Alaskan bald eagle, sits in her pen at a raptor recovery center near St. Marie's, Idaho, Wednesday, April 23, 2008.

Its beak is obviously damaged, essentially bifurcating; the top diverging from the bottom. The bird still is able to drink from the feeder, with its tongue coming out from the side.

Max the macaw shows off his 3D printed titanium robo-beak — after he lost his old one in a fight. Now the 20-year-old bird can eat solid food for the first time in two years — and bend his ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 21, 2021, Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Brilliant Bird: A Parrot With a Broken Beak Comes Up With a Good Imitation.