Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...

This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go ...

Scientists cannot even say why the Carolina parakeet went extinct ... birds. Editor's Note: In “The Lost Parrot,” we mistakenly characterized the Carolina parakeet as “North America ...

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 ...

Other scientists argue that it will never be possible to restore an extinct species whose habitat ... "Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North America," produced by the Smithsonian ...

This is the common and familiar “sea­gull” across much of North America—from coastal beaches ... often dark wash basally (most heavily marked birds look dark-tailed); tail band sometimes ...

This species is one of the most widely distributed, abundant, well-known, and well-named birds in North America. Polytypic. Length 8.7". Usually sits in an obvious place or is found in flocks ...