Many remarkable animal species have gone extinct due to human activities, climate change, and habitat destruction. The Spix’s ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Biodiversity is critical to maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Experts are stunned by comeback of near-extinct animals: 'A ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

An idependent report recommended the Scottish government place “restrictions” on cat ownership in specific rural areas ...

The night parrot is one of the great natural enigmas left in the world: a parrot that flies but lives in burrows and that's ...

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate ... of what fungi the now-extinct moa ate helps ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft since the early 2000s. Culturally, too, the animals are soaring.