Adult button quails are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and chicks are even smaller. This ground-dwelling ...

Canada geese are typically herded off of lakes during their flightless feather-molting period in June. In the past they've then been relocated.

For a second year in a row, John Ball Zoo has a penguin competing in a nationwide tournament. March of the Penguins Madness, ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

Blake Lively narrates National Geographic's "Secrets of the Penguins," the latest installment of its Emmy Award-winning franchise, streaming April 21.

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 ...

The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota) is a largely flightless bird and as such is particularly vulnerable to predation. The bird is found on several of the Galápagos islands, where Darwin ...

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

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

The dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list of extinctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.