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 scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick. "It was sort of discovered by accident," said ...

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Unbeknownst to ornithologists for all this time is the fact that a puffin’s beak is luminescent under UV light, possibly revealing how it attracts a mate. The puffin’s most notable feature is its ...

Puffin beaks glow brightly under UV light. Pictured, a puffin nesting on Bempton Cliffs near Bridlington, northeast England. OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images A student from the University of Nottingham, ...

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, ...

As if puffins — the super cute seabirds know for digging burrows and mating for life — weren’t already cool enough, one British ornithologist recently made a stunning discovery. Jamie Dunning found ...

While studying a bird called a twite, ornithologist Jamie Dunning got sidetracked and discovered something incredible in puffin beaks. "Originally it was a bit of a mess around," Dunning told Newsweek ...

With watercolors and borrowed binoculars, a non-birding mother-and-daughter duo slow down and follow their curiosity on ...

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. Tufted puffins regulate ...

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 ...