For a long time, New Zealand’s ancient past felt incomplete. Bits and pieces here and there. A few fossils. Large gaps. Now, ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

Across all seven continents, iconic birds once dominated their habitats before vanishing in ways that still raise hard ...

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 ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the dodo bird. But not all have perished. Here are four flightless birds that ...

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

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...

An expert biodiversity ranger was called in to respond to a tip about a local bird species in New Zealand previously thought to be extinct, the Miami Herald reported. After multiple days of failed ...