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

Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with the dodo, the first animal driven to extinction by humans in recorded history. In this extraordinary encounter, he reveals how this long-lost species has ...

Emus have a reputation for being “bird-brained”. In her art, Wendy Binks of Stunned Emu Designs captures that quirky, if ...

A new study measuring the cognitive skills of paleognaths – the small-brained, generally flightless, and more stereotypically ...

Saquon Barkley won a Super Bowl and broke Eagles and NFL records in his first season in Philly. Now, he has a penguin named ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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