Imagine peering into your backyard and spotting a creature whose ancestors once thundered across ancient landscapes alongside ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for ...

Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian ... its jawbone and teeth were like those of a small dinosaur, and ...

Convergent evolution is responsible for the wings of the bat, the bird ... few teeth, a rugged stomach, and large salivary glands. In each case, evolutionary adaptations allow them to exploit ...

The gooselike birds have lumpy piano legs like a Galápagos turtle, and seem to have a set of teeth. Clearly they ... Their state of neoteny was an adaptation, say Olson and James, to an ecosystem ...

All the birds start to sing as it gets lighter ... A short video about the significant differences in adaptations between nocturnal and diurnal creatures. The two groups take different approaches ...