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A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior.
It helps keep them warm, say our readers – but the flamingo is most famous for standing on one leg, and warmth is unlikely to ...
Some birds may stand on one leg as a tactic to aid in hunting. By reducing the number of feet they have in the water, the birds appear more like a stick than a predator. #6: White Stork ...
The earliest chapters in the history of birds remain murky due to the paucity of fossils. After Archaeopteryx - a crow-sized bird with teeth, a long bony tail and no beak whose fossils were first ...
Scientists are one step closer to understanding how modern birds evolved to have beaks, and the answer starts millions of years ago with some of the sexiest dinosaurs. Modern gulls, with their ...
Birds don't have teeth, and believe it or not, we're still not entirely sure why. A new study, however, has an impressive theory on what happened to our winged friends, and suggests how going ...
Here’s why bird legs are so skinny and how they can support a bird’s weight The songbirds in your backyard hop around on such itty-bitty legs. Skip to main content ...
A CT-scan image of the skull of an ancient bird shows how one of the earliest bird beaks worked as a pincer, in the way beaks of modern birds do, but also had teeth left over from dinosaur ancestors.