Spotify Canada geese flying in their signature v-formation weren’t always such a common fall sight in Minnesota. Hunting and habitat loss decimated the birds’ population a century ago. Numbers had ...

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

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

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

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 of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...

Environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis will deliver a free illustrated lecture based on his book “Belonging on an Island - Birds, Extinction, and ...

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

Reduction of the island of Rodrigues after the last ice age caused large-scale aggression in the extinct giant solitary ...