A secretive creature observed by Darwin has long since been thought extinct, until observers recently spotted a specimen.
The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...
One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...
Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...
The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.
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 ...
The Biodiversity Law Centre, which represents the groups, said the number of penguins had dwindled from 15,000 in 2018 to ...
De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.
Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
The exhibit — available for free viewing in the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library through March 28 — was designed to highlight bird species that have gone extinct or are critically endangered since the ...
It comes after an American bio-engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, told RNZ it’s interested in extinct New Zealand ...