As a boy growing up in Brazil 40 years ago, Marc A. Meyers marveled at the lightweight toughness of toucan beaks that he occasionally found on the forest floor. Now a materials scientist and professor ...

In a great act of kindness and science, researchers at three Brazilian universities recreated the upper portion of a toucan's beak after hers was severely damaged. (Video via Instituto Vida Livre) The ...

After the famous toucan received a prosthetic replacement, it's story has helped spark a national movement against harming animals in Costa Rica,... Remember the toucan in Costa Rica who had its upper ...

After the famous toucan received a prosthetic replacement, it's story has helped spark a national movement against harming animals in Costa Rica,... After Losing Half A Beak, Grecia The Toucan Becomes ...

Remember the toucan in Costa Rica who had its upper beak hacked off by a perpetrator who was never found? Well, here's an update to a story we first told you about last year. And, spoiler alert — it ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the burial of an elite woman with remarkable grave goods, including decorative crafts made from a toucan's beak and macaw feathers. The woman lived sometime ...

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COSTA RICA, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A toucan is getting a new lease on life thanks to a 3D printer. Grecia the toucan was found bloodied with his upper beak shattered. He was then brought to animal rehab ...

The interior of the toucan's beak is rigid "foam" made of bony fibers and drum-like membranes sandwiched between outer layers of keratin, the protein that makes up fingernails, hair and horn. The ...