The White-bellied Heron (WBH), the world's second-largest heron, is a symbolic bird for the people of Bhutan and also a ...

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate ... of what fungi the now-extinct moa ate helps ...

Coelacanth: Once though to be extinct for 66 million years, this ancient fish was rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938. It currently has a population of less than 1,000.

The idea of bringing extinct animals back to life is no longer science fiction. Efforts are underway to revive species like the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo bird. Through genetic ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

The parrot was thought extinct for over a century but was rediscovered in 2013 by a wildlife photographer who captured video footage of a live bird in Queensland. Not long after, populations were ...

Despite a costly reintroduction of bald ibexes in Italy, poaching threatens to drive them extinct again during their migration south. The endangered birds had been hunted into extinction throughout ...