One of the most fascinating creatures in the world of bird predators was the Haast's eagle. This enormous bird of prey has long been extinct for some 500 years and was undoubtedly the largest ...

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

They almost went extinct in the 1800s after decades ... along with these other biggest birds in the world. The Dalmatian pelican is one of the largest flying birds in the world, and they're ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the ... Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going ...

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 ...

I write about the world of biology ... The King Island brown thornbill is another Australian bird that is on the verge of becoming extinct. ... [+] Fortunately, its range is larger than previously ...

I write about the world ... the bird’s numbers dwindled with the North Island takahe disappearing entirely centuries ago. The South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), declared extinct ...

First listed as an endangered species in 1982, they have been extinct in the wild since 1988 due to an invasive predator, the brown tree snake. The birds’ successful release is the result of ...

The discovery was made possible by comparing historical microscopic sections of the brain with digital imprints of the bird's inside braincase, in the largest ... rare and even extinct species ...