Don’t let their lanky appearance and beautiful, soft pink plumage fool you, flamingos are totally metal. They are ...

I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the lights and stood astride her mysterious station. She worked her probe into ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

The only decorative flair is a patch of pink skin from eye to beak. The birds continued their hike ... Its flippers were just over seven inches long. Through the morning, we weighed and measured ...

They are among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet ... stabbing at the stubble with long daggerlike beaks, flipping cow pies, crunching up insects, snails, frogs and snakes.

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

Instead of the usual blunt front, they proposed a long, tapered, and aerodynamic nose that copied the bird's beak. The new design revolutionized how the train engaged the air in front of it.

A rare pink pigeon wowing visitors at Paignton Zoo after its near-extinction. The striking bird belongs to a species that was down to just nine individuals in the wild during the 1990s.

Growing up to 3 inches long, these flexible beaks are very sensitive and help the bird detect underground prey.

they are currently classified as red under the Birds of Conservation, which is the highest risk of extinction. As well as their long beaks, they can also be identified by their grey back, black tail ...

Whether it’s the early bird ... beak, and managed to reduce the sonic boom when a bullet train enters a tunnel. Many birds are a marvel of ingenious design. The woodpecker has a tongue so long ...