Printable: Beaks!
Big, small, pointed, curved... all are links to dinosaur ancestors
Eleven years ago, scientists in Kansas found the skull of a strange, ancient seabird. It looked very much like a modern gull, with one major difference: powerful jaws controlled a beak lined with sharp teeth. This “stem bird” lived 100 million years ago, and it shared physical characteristics with both dinosaurs and birds.
Since that time, beaks have sl…
