Cuvier's beaked whales are known for their abilities to dive deep and they average around an hour under water. But researchers were astounded when they recorded one animal diving for three hours ...

So the birds that were the winners in the game of natural selection lived to reproduce. The big-beaked finches just happened to be the ones favored by the particular set of conditions Nature ...

UEDA, Nagano Prefecture—A nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a beaked whale dating back 13 million years has been unearthed here, the first discovery of its kind in the Northern Hemisphere.

For example, the cactus finch has a long beak that reaches into blossoms, the ground finch has a short beak adapted for eating seeds buried under the soil, and the tree finch has a parrot-shaped ...

The longest ever recorded dive by a whale was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. It lasted 222 minutes and broke the record for diving mammals. Other whales can also hold their breath for a very long ...

An expedition to Indonesia led by Oxford University researchers recorded four three-second clips of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna. Spiky, furry and with a beak, echidnas have been called ...

A new species of “ghost shark” with a distinctive beak-like mouth has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. The new “spookfish” was found living deep in the waters of Australia and New Zealand by ...

Bubbles after he was gifted to the family in the 1960s. When she died, the family thought the beak was normal, until Torres posted a picture of the curious-looking creature online. "When I made ...

Whales are accomplished divers. The deepest whale dive recorded so far was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. A 2014 study used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the ...

A new species of “ghost shark” with a distinctive beak-like mouth has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. The new “spookfish” was found living deep in the waters of Australia and New ...

A "huge" pod of dolphins has been spotted off the Isle of Man coast. An estimated 250-300 short-beaked common dolphins, including juveniles and small calves, were filmed near the Point of Ayre on ...

In recent years, Barrow has been a whole lot more busy with Beak>, the krautrock-influenced trio that he co-founded in 2008. Beak surprise-released their fourth album >>>> earlier this year ...