This bird had the first beak, with teeth

If you wanted to know what the first bird beak looked like, today’s your lucky day. The Ichthyornis dispar was the subject of a paper published this week. Ichthyornis dispar is the name of a creature with the now-oldest bird beak in the world. “The first beak was a horn-covered pincer tip at the end of the jaw,” said researcher …