Many bird species have been lost to us forever. Some were alive millions of years ago. We only know of them because of fossil finds and the wonders of artistic reconstruction. Others became ...

The dodo had downy grey feathers with a white tail plume. The backside of the dodo was believed to have a tuft of lightly coloured feathers ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ..

THE long-extinct dodo could be brought back from the dead by 2028, nearly 350 years after humans hunted them into extinction. Either that, or the long-lost Tasmanian tiger, the CEO of a landmark ...

The extinct species include eight of Hawaii’s precious honeycreeper birds, the Little Mariana fruit bat of Guam, the Bridled ...

They also belong to a larger group of birds called the enantiornithines. They date back to the Cretaceous Period and went extinct with most of their fellow dinosaurs when an asteroid struck the ...

Six sihek (Guam kingfisher) have been released into the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll Thomas Manglona KUAM Guam kingfisher A bird species that was previously extinct in the wild has been ...

First listed as an endangered species in 1982, they have been extinct in the wild since 1988 due to an invasive predator, the brown tree snake. The birds’ successful release is the result of ...

If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds? Caiden S., age 9, Wylie, Texas Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that ...

Birds descended from a particular group of dinosaurs called the dromaeosaurs, or “running lizards,” which were a family of feathered theropod or “beast foot” dinosaurs that included velociraptor. But ...

Human activities such as hunting, habitat destruction, and pesticide use drove the bird to the brink of extinction. Fortunately, dedicated conservation efforts have begun to reverse this trend ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A bird once declared extinct in the wild is making a comeback in Central Florida, thanks in part to efforts at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, which is playing a crucial role in global ...