In the Mendip Hills of southwestern England, a pine marten, considered locally extinct for over 100 years, was caught on a ...

It is commonly said that dodos were the first animal to go extinct at the hands of humans after we hunted them into oblivion in the 1600s, but this isn't really true. For starters, humans had likely ...

Author and professor Gísli Pálsson details the final years of the North Atlantic flightless birds that were driven to extinction by humans — an event that caused a moment of realization about humanity ...

Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North ...

In 1844, the Great Auk went the way of the Dodo, and eventually so would mid-19th century fashions. Fortunately, artist Brian R. Williams has immortalized both, drawing extinct birds wearing clothes ...

The last pair — a breeding male and female — were killed by hunters in 1844 while defending their egg, researchers said.

A crazy collection of curios from bones of extinct dodo birds, hair from a wooly mammoth, and even the tooth from a massive Megalodon shark are all up for auction this week. Other lots include a ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...