Here, we’ll explore the inside of the duck’s mouth and learn more about their bills and what they use them for. Then, we’ll check out their gizzard and find out just why ducks eat rocks. We’ll go over ...

WASHINGTON -- Call them "qucks" and "duails." With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck's flat bill with a quail's pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But the experiment ...

A Duck-Like Diver from the Age of Dinosaurs The Vegavis iaai fossil, discovered during a 2011 expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, is one of the most remarkable finds in paleontology.

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Murderous 10-Foot-Tall Bird With a Beak Like a Pickax. ... The 18 known species, the tallest growing to a staggering 10 feet tall, ...

The new skull shares many similarities with living birds, such as a toothless beak and a bird-like braincase. In fact, the study claims that Vegavis might be the oldest known modern bird discovered so ...

This simple mathematical rule captures how the width of a pointed structure, like a beak, expands from the tip to the base. We call this rule the “power cascade”.

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.” ...