One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

Flightless Bird sees journalist David Farrier learning about what makes America special, from his unique perspective as a ...

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

Scientists found that when birds lose the ability to fly, their skeletons change first, while feathers take much longer to ...

Centre director Chloe Drew said Emma may have lived so long because he was "spoiled with lots of love and attention". The ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...

Seteweela, a 14-year-old golden eagle originally from the San Francisco area, was rendered flightless at about the age of 3 ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

Study in Evolution journal compares flightless bird evolution, revealing how feathers and bodies change when birds lose flight ability.

On this week's episode: big bird intelligence, astronauts should jump, sheep and human history, and a tiny great ape.