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The Maya Archaeology Initiative is fighting claims by Kellogg North America that a bird depicted in MAI's logo is too similar to "Toucan Sam," the fictional spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal. MAI, a ...

The Louisville Zoo just welcomed an animal it's never had before.There's a new toucan in town named Lucy, and her species is new to the zoo.Lucy is a 7-year-old toco toucan. She comes from the St.

LAFAYETTE, Calif. - Two wandering toucans have been flying about the skies over the East Bay, but one pastor-turned-toucan-wrangler helped capture one of the bright-billed birds. "I just really love ...

The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forest dweller uses to lose body heat. The bill of the Toco ...

Charles Darwin thought the toucan's oversized beak was a sexual lure for attracting potential mates, while some modern-day biologists suggested it was either for peeling fruit or to warn off ...

The toucan's colourful - and comical - beak has made it one of the world's most recognisable birds. Now researchers have solved the mystery of why their bills are so large. A study has found that the ...

A bird the size of a crow that flew 68 million years ago and looked like a miniature toucan has been discovered in Madagascar. Dubbed Falcatakely, meaning 'small scythe beak', it had a curved and ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over why the toucan's bill is so remarkably large - but now one team thinks it might have an answer. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say that the ...