and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ). The photographs show the underside of the beak bones, and the red ...

“ Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the ...

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior. Living around 120 million years ago, the species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis, is ...

Longipteryx is a weird fossil bird with a long beak with super-hard teeth at the tip. Based on its beak, scientists have ...

Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which. A black-capped chickadee by any other name ...

(Gray News) – A rare bird that was believed to have been “lost” for over 50 years has been photographed for the first time in ...

In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house ...

With a beak full of ultra-strong teeth, this weird prehistoric bird may seem like a fearsome predator. However, a new study has found that the Longipteryx chaoyangensis actually feasted on fruit ...

India's wetlands are home to a diverse range of bird species. Here are 8 magnificent birds you may discover in these diverse environments.

Further study of their beaks and food-gathering behavior could help conserve some of these birds, many of which are at threat of extinction. The results are reported in the journal Biology Letters.

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.” ...