The base of the toucan beak is inlaid with decorative beads. Peru Ministry of Culture The recently unearthed woman’s grave goods included an Amazonian snail shell, a fishing net, a wool textile ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the burial of an elite woman with remarkable grave goods, including decorative crafts made from a toucan's beak and macaw feathers. The woman lived sometime ...

The most iconic colourful beak in the bird world belongs to the Keel-Billed Toucan. Native to Central and South America, this bird’s bill is a mix of neon green, bright orange, turquoise ...

At the Vida Livre (Free Life) Institute, the team of volunteer veterinarians and biologists rehabilitate thousands of wild animals — from parrots with broken ... toucan lost half of its upper ...

When they hatch, toucan chicks are roughly the size of a chicken chick. An adult female can lay two to four eggs, and the incubation period is 16 to 20 days. Due to a shorter incubation than most ...

Toucans are best known for their large, colorful bills, which can be four times the size of their head. They use their beak to reach food far out on branches or deep into tree cavities.

He is about 9 years old, and when wildlife researchers found him as a baby, he was missing his upper beak, probably because it had been caught in a trap made for rats and other invasive mammals ...

It turns out that its tall, scythe-like beak, while resembling the toucan, is something never before seen in the fossil record. Birds in the Mesozoic era -- between 250 million and 65 million ...

In what may be one of the weirdest animal mash-ups, scientists have found the 68 million-year-old fossilized skull of an early bird with a Velociraptor-like face and a toucan-like beak ...