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

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

giant tortoises and — as it now turns out — giant, flightless birds. by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Colorado Boulder has confirmed that a ...

The giant, flightless bird known as the moa was originally from New Zealand and was last seen hundreds of years ago. Today the species' revival is being discussed with the help of DNA analysis.

This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached heights of 4.6 feet (1.40 meters). This fearsome giant dominated the ancient Geiseltal region in Germany.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. In the quest to take the "forever" out ...

But giant grazing ducks may have spurred ... may have evolved defenses from moa-nalo, these oversized flightless, ground-nesting birds were one of the first species to disappear when humans ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird ...