To be able to drill holes with that much force and not come away with a concussion, a woodpeckers beak and skull has ... for ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

open image in gallery A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai ... expands that similarity to the skull,” Torres added, showing that Vegavis had a beak suited to fish hunting along with ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica ... when compared with today’s bird species. Many sported bizarre features such as toothed beaks and long, bony tails. Vegavis, however, would ...

The specimen described in the study has something that all previous fossils of this bird have lacked: a nearly complete skull. Several traits - including the shape of the brain and beak bones ...