WASHINGTON -- Call them "qucks" and "duails." With a little egg tinkering, scientists replaced a duck's flat bill with a quail's pointy beak, breeding some funny-looking birds. But the experiment ...

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image: This shows striking variation between breeds of domestic pigeons. Left: Old German owl breed with a head crest and short beak. Right: Scandaroon breed with large beak and no crest. Background: ...

A new species of pterosaur was discovered recently that seems to share some qualities with the modern pelican, notably a pouched beak used to swoop down into lakes and catch prey. If the pterosaur's ...

Washington - Scientists have found the remains of one of the weirdest creatures ever discovered - a big flying reptile that lived during the time of the dinosaurs that snapped up fish with a ...