A macaw got a new 3D-printed titanium prosthetic beak after the original was torn off in a fight with another bird. A team of South African veterinary specialists fitted Max, a rescue believed to be ...

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 cage’s bars ...

A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young, cleaning ...

We get captivated by a bird’s plumage and may not think to notice its beak, which is critical to the bird’s identity. I’ve often heard people yell “flamingo!” when they see a pink-plumed bird feeding ...

Certain birds in the U.K. have longer beaks than their non-U.K. brethren of the same species. Evolutionary biologists suggest that it’s the British people’s fondness for setting out bird feeders that ...

If you wanted to know what the first bird beak looked like, today's your lucky day. The Ichthyornis dispar was the subject of a paper published this week. Ichthyornis dispar is the name of a creature ...

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 ...

We're not sure if it got the worm, but it definitely was an early bird. Scientists say they found the earliest known beak from the fossils of a seabird that lived 85 million years ago — a pivotal link ...