Taxi for the fearless! Brave heron casually rides on an alligator’s back round a Florida lake Incredible footage shows a snow-coloured heron standing on an alligator’s back Former marine Savannah Boan captured the amazing clip at Gatorland, Florida She said that the wild heron arrive at the attraction park every year to breed By Sam … Read more
‘Buck-toothed’ bird the size of a crow with a toucan-like beak lived on Madagascar 68 million years ago Remains of a bird’s skull have been found on the African island of Madagascar The species has been called Falcatakely which means ‘small scythe beak’ By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 18:54 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: … Read more
An exuberant dinosaur with a parrot-like beak, bony frills, a huge horn on its nose and a ‘star-like’ skull has been named in honour of British rock musician David Bowie. US palaeontologists have given the dinosaur genus the name Stellasaurus, meaning ‘star lizard’, based on a fossilised skull found in Montana. The creature roamed the … Read more
First invented in the 1980s by Chuck Hull, an engineer and physicist, 3D printing technology – also called additive manufacturing – is the process of making an object by depositing material, one layer at a time. Similarly to how an inkjet printer adds individual dots of ink to form an image, a 3D printer adds … Read more
Air kissing: Parakeets give one another a peck on the beak in mid-air The parakeets were photographed mid-air in Gurdaspur, Punjab, northern India The male and female duo can be seen brushing past each other before clashing At the end of their ‘lover’s tiff’, the pair plant a peck on each other’s beaks By Ryan … Read more
Who’s a pretty scary boy then? Bob the parrot sharpens his beak then puffs up his feathers and struts menacingly towards his owner Bob the parrot appears embarrassed before turning around to stick out chest Footage taken by owner in Minnesota, USA, shows caique sharpening his beak The parrot then puffs up his feathers and … Read more