A Mayo brother’s private flock led to a rediscovery of these big birds. Decades later, the geese nearly took over town.

Scientists are on the verge of bringing extinct animals like the woolly mammoth, Pyrenean ibex, and Tasmanian tiger back to ...

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

In October 2024, the African penguin became the first penguin species in the world to be listed as critically endangered by ...

The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

There’s millions of invasive snakes on this tiny island, where they were accidentally introduced during World War II. Since ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

The palila is among the Hawaiian birds that Daniel Lewis will talk about. (Paul Banko) A native of Hawai’i, Lewis will talk ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...