"It shows us what the first bird beak looked like," said Bhart-Anjan Bhullar of Yale University, a study researcher. "It's a real mosaic of features, a transitional form." It has long been known ...

We wanted to better understand how this pattern of change was playing out in Australian birds. Our two pieces ... bill size also shrank. Since beak sizes increase over the long-term because ...

The bottom part of the bird's beak is long and curves upwards, while it appears to have a shorter than normal top part to its beak. It has been visiting a bird table filled with food by Nairn ...