The BBC reported that the Galapagos rail, a small, mostly flightless bird, has returned to Floreana Island. The rail's ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, ...

"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek bird ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15M in Colossal Biosciences' efforts to revive the extinct giant moa bird Colossal Biosciences (2) Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner ...

The Sihek is among the most endangered bird species in the world. For the first time in almost 40 years, recently released Siheks have laid eggs in the wild. Conservationists hope to release more ...