Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

Since 1500, about 150 bird species have gone extinct, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. A ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

Researchers say urgent conservation efforts will be needed to mitigate the ‘shocking statistic’ that threatens to unravel ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought ...

Generally speaking, there are herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore animals.When you think of birds, you might automatically refer to the more innocuous varieties, such as songbirds that might visit ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

In 1827, naturalist John Audubon announced a massive discovery: the largest North American eagle. But did the Washington sea eagle exist?

Illinois’ nearly extinct prairie chicken and Chicago’s famous piping plovers, Monty and Rose, are among the highlights of the ‘Winging It’ show.

DR. LEIDY'S new work on the extinct mammalia and fauna of Dakota and Nebraska, to which is appended a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, fills a wide gap in Palæontology. It ...

an extinct bird that resembled seagulls; and several species resembling ducks that are within or very similar to neornithes, the group containing all modern birds. The world was warmer in the Late ...