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

Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding that sounds like something out of a scientific whodunit. Still, it's real: ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go extinct. The odd, flightless ...

An emu has been spotted on the run in the Salisbury area since January 2025. This is the second emu to have escaped on ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the ...

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

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

The large, flightless bird has been spotted all over the area, including along Route 50 and in Salisbury, Hebron, and Mardela Springs. This is the second emu to escape on the Delmarva Peninsula ...