In an effort to take care of its aging penguins, the New England Aquarium has established a new living space for their more ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

Flightless Bird sees journalist David Farrier learning about what makes America special, from his unique perspective as a ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...

Scientists found that when birds lose the ability to fly, their skeletons change first, while feathers take much longer to ...

The dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list of extinctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

Study in Evolution journal compares flightless bird evolution, revealing how feathers and bodies change when birds lose flight ability.

The Appalachian grasshopper is very small and has amazing camouflage, making it hard to spot. They can only be found in certain places in the US states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia ...

On this week's episode: big bird intelligence, astronauts should jump, sheep and human history, and a tiny great ape.

Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours hunched over looking through brush and scouring the short grass on the side of the road until he locked eyes with a creature once believed to be extinct. He ...

A Virginia zoologist caught a small, flightless grasshopper that hadn’t been officially documented since 1946. Photo from Demure Storyteller via Unsplash Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours ...