As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...

A nearly-complete, 69million-year-old fossil of the long-extinct bird named Vegavis iaai supports this theory. It was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai, a relative of modern ducks and geese that lived some 69 million years ago—the same time Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping ...

Patagonian bird droppings, he and colleagues announced ... that colourful truffle-like fungi endemic to NZ were consumed by extinct moa (Dinornithiformes). Biology Letters. Vol.

A once-thought extinct native bird is now beating the odds, with a further release of 18 birds into the Rees Valley near ...

London Zoo is now home to three of the world's rarest birds as conservationists join forces to save the species from ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the state is the first to describe it. The now-extinct bird is the Bachman’s ...