I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of ...

She was the last known member of her species. Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the ...

the bird’s numbers dwindled with the North Island takahe disappearing entirely centuries ago. The South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), declared extinct by ornithologists in 1898 ...

The football-sized birds are about 18 inches long and a duller black color than crows in North America. They are considered ... "These guys have been extinct in the wild for a long time, and ...

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 ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct ... in much of North America.

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...