... , though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, ... team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her ...
... the drop speed by a factor of 10,” Quere said.
The capillary ratchet also depends critically on the beak's wettability--a measure of a liquid's tendency to bead up into droplets or spread out to wet ...
More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers.
WAYNESBORO, Va., July 13 (UPI) -- An eaglet at the Wildlife Center of Virginia has undergone a successful operation to repair its misshapen beak, the center's president says.
Scientists believe that beaked whales are one of the least understood groups of mammals on Earth.
(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have wondered why only males of the rarely seen family of beaked whales have “tusks,” since they are squid-eaters and in many of the species, these elaborately ...
A stork with a damaged beak receives a new, artificial one, thanks to experts at a bird hospital in Hungary.
... its upper and lower jaws were toothless, demonstrating that the dinosaur possessed a fully developed beak. Its lack of teeth, short arms without sharp claws and possession of gizzard stones suggest ...
... , Australia (AP) -- Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus - one of nature's strangest-looking animals with the beak of a duck, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom....
The puffin population off Scotland's east coast has dropped by nearly a third in less than five years, prompting scientists to issue warnings about the orange-beaked seabird's future.
... the primary food for 28 species of odontocetes, the sub-order of cetaceans that have teeth and include beaked, sperm, killer and beluga whales and narwhals as well as dolphins and porpoises.
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... the primary food for 28 species of odontocetes, the sub-order of cetaceans that have teeth and include beaked, sperm, killer and beluga whales and narwhals as well as dolphins and porpoises.
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Elvis, one of the last survivors of an endangered species of thick-billed parrots, is undergoing radiation at a Texas hospital to cure a malignant melanoma on his beak.
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) -- A team of U.S. Navy audiologists conducted a hearing test Saturday on a rare beaked whale convalescing at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys....
... elevated noise.
Tyack will present initial results from a study on behavioral responses of beaked whales and other whales to sonar and other sounds. The study was conducted at the Atlantic Undersea ...
