Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around ... Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds ...

Genetically modified chickens could be the key to protecting endangered species and bringing back extinct ones, scientists ...

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

She was the last known member of her species. Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the ...

Incas died at the Cincinnati Zoo, leaving behind mysteries over his death, his final resting place and the factors that led ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate ... of what fungi the now-extinct moa ate helps ...