Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

"That’s some amazing news!" Officials announce success as rare bird comes back after it has been extinct for over 200 years: ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Oceania is home to a curious and formidable creature, the cassowary. The dinosaur-like giant has earned the title of the ...

A LARGE bird that was once "near extinction" has been spotted in a Herefordshire village. According to the birdwatching site, goingbirding.co.uk, M Skyrme spotted a goshawk in Nether Wood on January 6 ...

More than 66 million years ago, Mexico was home to numerous species of dinosaurs, some of them as terrifying as T. rex.

Zealandia, the world’s first fully fenced urban ecosanctuary, is taking a long view on conservation—and creating one of New ...

The Andean condor has been threatened with extinction for decades. At one time, the condor was considered extinct in ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

The first Friday of each month at 12:15 p.m. in the Mary Duke Biddle Room, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books & Manuscripts Library turns to a new page in the bible of North American ornithology: “The ...

Eagle, an endemic bird of Java, is on the verge of extinction, with an estimated remaining population of around 511 pairs or ...