Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely to ...

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. The night parrot ...

The list of animals pushed into extinction has grown even longer. In its latest update, the International Union for ...

Once common across Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the slender-billed curlew has not been officially sighted since 1995, ...

Cincinnati took custody of a great auk in 1974. A new DNA test proves it's one of the last survivors of the seabird species.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in ...

The Guam kingfisher, or Sihek in CHamoru, is an iconic species of Guam, but can no longer be found there. Pictured here are Hinanao and his mate, Tutuhan, who came from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical ...

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct. As detailed in a paper published in the Zoological ...