Million-Year-Old Fossil of a 'Super Ostrich' Almost the Size of a Polar Bear Amazes Researchers Extinct animals provide ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

The private Dallas company is behind efforts to resurrect the mammoth and other extinct animals. Colossal said its woolly mouse would enable its scientists to test hypotheses about the link between ...

Wildlife cameras hidden on the Somerset Levels, England, had captured incredible footage of a very rare bird, once thought to be extinct. Three bitterns, thickset members of the heron family ...

The private Dallas company is behind efforts to resurrect the mammoth and other extinct animals. Colossal said its woolly mouse would enable its scientists to test hypotheses about the link ...

Wildlife cameras hidden on the Somerset Levels, England, had captured incredible footage of a very rare bird, once thought to be extinct. Three bitterns, thickset members of the heron family, were ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

Fossils of a prehistoric giant flying squirrel, Miopetaurista, found at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee. Credit: Isaac Casanovas-Vilar / CC BY 4.0 An ancient giant flying squirrel once glided ...

Then, it was never seen on the island again — until now. “The Galápagos rail, a secretive bird thought to be extinct on Floreana, has been found on the island for the first time since Charles ...