Living bird species also have no teeth, although some species – often aquatic ones – have ridges on their beaks. These may function similarly to simple teeth by helping the birds to hold on to ...

and I wish all my readers the courage to figure it out and live YOU to the fullest, even if you didn’t know chickens have no teeth. Until the next time: Live while you live.

"There are no modern birds with teeth, but there are these really cool little hummingbirds that have keratinous projections near the tip of the rostrum that resemble what you see in Longipteryx ...

Instead, a growing body of experimental evidence has shown such traits reflect changes in how, where, and when these genes are expressed. Even though birds lost teeth as physical structures ...