It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ... that ...

The bird — fat and flightless ... Using fossils, he argued in 1796 that many species had become extinct in the wake of natural catastrophes. Humans had been causing extinctions at least since ...

Conservation groups are warning that around a quarter of almost 900 different species assessed in Hong Kong are at risk of ...

Birds-of-paradise can emit green, yellow and pale blue light from their bodies. It’s believed this ability – known as biofluorescence – helps the birds to stand out or hide in their tropical forest ...

almost 95 per cent (of the world’s population) in Cambodia and a few were sighted along the Cambodian-Laos border. "It is endemic to Cambodia and it is also the national bird of Cambodia.

Since they were so critically endangered and almost extinct in the wild, they used puppets to teach them how to be birds so they could be released and rebound their populations. And they were ...

curid=95659958 Long believed extinct due to deforestation, the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker stunned bird enthusiasts with rare ... Image via Depositphotos. Hunted almost to extinction for their ...