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 ...

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 ...

With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck’s flat bill with a quail’s pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But University of California scientists who switched birds ...

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, ...

Scientists already knew that birds evolved from dinosaurs. But thanks to a Yale-led study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they know what the first bird beak looked like during ...

A bird’s beak or bill consists of two hornlike structures called the upper and lower mandible. Only the lower mandible moves, similar to the way people’s lower jaws move. Although bird beaks ...

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.” ...

Scientists already knew that birds evolved from dinosaurs. But thanks to a Yale-led study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, they know what the first bird beak looked like during that ...