Once hunted to extinction, eight crested ibises make a remarkable comeback thanks to decades of captive breeding and an ...

Have you heard the heartbreaking story of the last passenger pigeon to ever live? Flocks of this pigeon species were once so ...

Thomas Mulligan investigates the groundbreaking scientific efforts and genetic breakthroughs aimed at bringing the long-lost ...

The crested ibis, once known for its beautiful plumage, looks like a creature out of a storybook. And it would have been, if ...

Cormorants are one of the world’s most impressive bird species. They can take to the air in seconds and have a diving ...

Endangered crested ibises return to Japanese wild decades after extinction - Known as Toki in Japan, the distinctive birds ...

Independent scientists say the technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

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 ...

"First printing, March 2016"--Title page verso. "Extinct Birds of Hawaiʻi captures the vanishing world of unique bird species that has slipped away in the Islands mostly due to human frivolity and ...