Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

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The world’s rarest parrot, the Spix’s macaw – once declared extinct in the wild – has hatched at Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium.

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

A Texas genetics company working to bring back the woolly mammoth says it’s a step closer to reviving another famed extinct species: the dodo. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences Inc. said Wednesday it ...

By Bob Duchesne Maine looks different today than it did before Europeans arrived. Its wildlife has changed, with some species ...

Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for ...