Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than ...

With only about 130 left in captivity, siheks are extinct in the wild ... an orange handkerchief and a blue dress who an ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ..

An international effort to save the species from being lost forever has seen three of these extinct-in-the-wild birds move to ...

The sihek is native to Guam and had been extinct in the ... "Raising these birds from tiny helpless chicks to fully fledged adults, with their beautiful blue and orange plumage, is a long process ...

People started trapping them, hoping to sell the live birds to the highest bidder. They went extinct anyway—which makes them an appropriately ironic subject for Laurel Roth Hope. Years ago Hope ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Miners in Southeast Asia discovered a well-preserved wing of an extinct bird species. The discovery reveals similarities between ancient and modern birds.

The blue-billed curassow is the world's most threatened species of cracid, a family of beautiful crested game birds found primarily in Latin America. This large, mainly black bird is the only curassow ...