The high-tech birds can see 99 million more colors than we can. Birds are awesome. They fly (well, most of them do), they form massive swarms, and they’re basically living dinosaurs. But puffins, ...

For most of the year, puffins vanish into the open ocean and live like ghosts. But for a few chaotic weeks each summer, these ...

This is the last in my series of columns linking the Arctic areas I have been visiting this summer with our New England backyards. One trip my birdwatching mom and I planned but never took was a ...

Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food. In a new study published ...

An incredible photo of a puffin reveals that the birds' beaks actually have a fluorescent quality to them. Evidently, a part of their beaks glow bright blue when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light.

A greedy puffin was caught on camera stuffing its beak with fish. Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek-Peters snapped the colourful seabird on Skomer Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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The post The Bizarre Tongue Feature That Makes Puffins Master Fishers appeared first on A-Z Animals. Birds that dive for their prey can spend hours in the water chasing fish. After each fish is caught ...

Birds are awesome. They fly (well, most of them do), they form massive swarms, and they’re basically living dinosaurs. But puffins, which are already cool because they’re birds, just got a whole lot ...

Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food. Tufted puffins regulate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A puffin has been caught on camera cramming its beak full of fish in an impressive feeding display in Pembrokeshire, UK.