One bird species and five sub-species are now confirmed extinct following a long absence of sightings. ONE SPECIES AND FIVE sub-species of Australian birds that, when last surveyed ten years ago, were ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once ...

A critically endangered 'Akikiki that study lead author Kyle Kittelberger photographed on Kauai in 2022. Credit: Kyle Kittelberger Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird ...

The amber preserved the 3D structure of the enantiornithine feathers, giving researchers clues about where they were in the molting phase.Shundong Bi During the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million ...

A study published in December 2020 by biologists at University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom found that 166 species of 'flightless birds' had been destroyed by humans in the last 120,000 ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...