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 ...

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

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

Imagine a world where extinct bird species are brought back ... The most-bountiful bird of North America, the passenger pigeon, succumbed to extinction in the early twentieth century due to ...

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century would have been familiar with ...

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

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

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when Tyrannosaurus rex ruled North America.

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 ...