Across all seven continents, iconic birds once dominated their habitats before vanishing in ways that still raise hard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal agency last month removed a bird native to Florida from the Endangered Species List, saying that the Bachman's warbler ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When people think of extinct animals, they may picture taxidermy, skeletons, 19th-century illustrations or perhaps grainy ...

For a long time, New Zealand’s ancient past felt incomplete. Bits and pieces here and there. A few fossils. Large gaps. Now, ...

Thousands of mosquitoes, encased in cardboard tubes, are loaded into a helicopter by Aidan Callahan, Layla Rohde and Nicole Ferguson of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, part of a novel strategy ...

Fossilized feathers of an extinct bird show it molted differently than modern birds. The prehistoric bird lost its feathers all at once, while many modern birds molt in waves. Regrowing feathers uses ...

Every week at the Maui airport, a small helicopter gets loaded with 250,000 passengers. They're male mosquitoes, key players in a strategy that could be the last, best hope for Hawaii's endangered ...