Raptor Beak Evolution (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Raptor Beak Evolution

Caption

The skulls of a collared falconet (Microhierax caerulescens) and an Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), the smallest and largest birds the team studied.

Credit

Dr. Jen Bright. Specimens located at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA

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