The elusive night parrot, once thought extinct, is still found in pockets of Australia. A new study discovers what they need ...

Colossal’s latest announcement indicates that the dodo could be de-extinct within a decade, as its dire wolves thrive and ...

A study set out to answer: where are green parrots living, what threatens them from there and what can be done to keep them ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in ...

Scientists are exploring DNA, cloning and CRISPR technology to possibly revive the extinct dodo bird, sparking hope and ...

The result is BIRDBASE, “a comprehensive global dataset documenting ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird ...

Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely 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 ...

Scientists are one step closer to resurrecting the dodo after creating gene-edited chickens that could lay eggs carrying the ...

BIRDBASE compiles data on 11,600 bird species worldwide, giving scientists a powerful tool for research and conservation.

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...