Scientists at The Australian National University have successfully taught captive-bred regent honeyeaters to sing the ...

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction ...

Presumed extinct for more than 50 years, the wonderful takahē is still very much alive. As this Instagram post shows, it is a ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

One of the unique aspects of our modern era is the ability to preserve sights and sounds. While an animal’s extinction means its physical presence is gone forever, technology allows us to experience a ...

The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn't stopping Dallas' Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Sept. 17, the "de-extinction" ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction events set to occur in the next 100 years across 500 bird species. The slew ...

Mark Walter, the new owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, is backing one of the most ambitious science projects of the decade: bringing back an extinct bird from the dead. It's called the moa, a giant, ...

True to their nickname, terror birds (Phorusrhacidae) are known as one of the largest and also the most fearsome birds to ever live. These were flightless birds with ...