More than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct - and today, many scientists believe we are driving a sixth ...

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were believed to be extinct for decades As they attempt to eradicate invasive ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...

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CINCINNATI — Heather Farrington sorts butterfly skins, placing them in envelopes and then into multiple boxes. A co-worker teases her. “Weren’t you doing that last week, too?” Farrington laughs.

Across all seven continents, iconic birds once dominated their habitats before vanishing in ways that still raise hard questions. This video traces one extinct bird from each region, using fossils, ...

BIRDMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. "Hundreds (maybe thousands) of bird species and subspecies have become extinct over the last 700 years ...

The night parrot is a beautiful green and yellow bird native to Australia. These birds are nocturnal, nesting on the ground and favoring desert environments. The night parrot is extremely lightweight ...

Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest yet. Scientists have discovered that a flightless Hawaiian ibis called ...