In the middle of the 18th Century, at around the time the US was signing the declaration of independence, a large flightless bird quietly became extinct ... the waves due to sea-level rise and ...

The complete skull has been preserved almost intact: a rarity for any fossil bird, but particularly for one so ancient, making this one of the most significant finds of its kind. The almost perfectly ...

It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone ... Enormous ancient sea reptile identified from amateur fossil find Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs ...

To date, the IUCN Red List describes 164 birds as having gone extinct in the modern age—and ... to wetlands on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea—some went further, to the tropics or to ...