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, ...

Anyone that has ever laid eyes on an Atlantic puffin will tell you about its incredibly colorful beak, but it now seems that there’s more going on here than meets the eye (or human eye, we should say) ...

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.

Birds that dive for their prey can spend hours in the water chasing fish. After each fish is caught, it is consumed on the ...

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 ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While studying a bird called a twite, ornithologist Jamie Dunning got ...

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 ...

Five years ago, on a remote island in Wales, University of Oxford scientist Annette Fayet spied a puffin doing something she had never seen before. The bird, floating on the seawater beneath a cliff, ...

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 ...

Puffins don’t need sunglasses. Despite the glare off the shining sea and snow, these lil birds have managed to survive for many years without the aid of fashionable eyewear. It is scientists, not ...