The Albatross Beak. Several years ago, I was looking through boxes in storage and came across the Albatross Beak. Trying to find out more about it, I found that we had very little information; ...

Albatross have fascinating beaks. Unlike most other birds, they have a “compound” beak made of multiple pieces of keratin. Albatross spend most of their lives at sea, so they have adapted to drink ...

A Tasmanian shy albatross has a new lease on life after wildlife biologists removed a hook from its beak. But the government biologists have urged the fishing industry to be more careful around ...

Call it the case of the stowaway seabird. A man driving through Los Angeles was alerted Friday to an enormous bird that had hitched a ride in the back of his pickup truck. With its white body ...

Young albatross, embarking on their first journey, can spend up to five years at sea without ever touching land. Yet not all albatross are the same. Across the world’s oceans there exist 22 ...

Shock, combined with a little wonder at the unnatural. That’s how I feel as I watch the knife slice through the sternum of a dead Laysan albatross. Inside its ribcage: a sickening array of ...

Albatross are among the world's largest flying birds, with wingspans that can stretch beyond a remarkable three metres. ... Pointy Ones How Albatross Beaks Evolved To Match Their Prey ...

Just as Darwin’s finches evolved specialised beaks to target prey, 3D modelling of 61 museum specimens reveals albatross beaks vary in size and shape for different diets. They can also drink ...