Nature never runs out of ways to surprise us! It is endowed with birds that have beautiful covers of feathers on their bodies and perform unmissable courtship dances. But the vibrant and colourful ...

While long and wide beaks are usually seen on wading birds to help them pick their prey, the toucan’s gleaming 7.5-in beak is ...

From tools for fishing to built-in filters, these six birds have some of the most unusual beak designs in the animal kingdom. Toucans possess the largest bird bills at 7.5 inches, used for ...

The interior of the toucan's beak is rigid "foam" made of bony fibers and drum-like membranes sandwiched between outer layers of keratin, the protein that makes up fingernails, hair and horn.