Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North ...

When Dutch sailors first landed on the uninhabited Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in the late 16th century, the dodo’s ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife by Tim Birkhead (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Conor W. O'Brien's introduces his new book The Living and The Dead - Tales of Loss and Rebirth from Irish Nature, celebrating the extensive efforts being undertaken to revitalise lost species across ...

Half an hour from the Victoria/NSW border, nestled in the shadows of Pine Mountain, lays Pheasant Creek Flora Reserve – the current home of two programs to help threatened flora. Recently, Dr Floret ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A little-known decision by NSW’s biggest electricity network last year to ditch timber power poles paved the way for NSW Premier Chris ...

Great Britain and Ireland trailed the United States by one point at the end of the first day of the Walker Cup. GB&I won the morning foursomes 3-1 at Cypress Point in California but were beaten 5½-2½ ...

Over 160 acres of land in south Kilkenny, which is set to be auctioned in the coming weeks, is said to be “one of the finest holdings to come to the market in the area in years”. On October 3, a 164 ...

A 23-year-old man before Sligo District Court charged with damaging a 50” television and front glass door of a pub in Co Sligo had his case adjourned for two months to come up with compensation. Kyle ...

There was nothing particularly noteworthy about the black and white postcard that occasional postcard collector Georgia Curry found while rummaging through a box at an op-shop. Had she read the ...