The native birds hadn't been on the island for 50 years. But now their biggest threat is perhaps a surprising one.

Thousands of drone-delivered mosquitoes are being dropped into Hawaii on a mission to help save an almost extinct species of ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

From Ireland's last Great Auk to a fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years — there's so much to discover in ...

The La Venta fossil site in Colombia is home to a rich fossil record, yielding a particularly diverse set of vertebrate ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

The terror bird. It’s a name that strikes fear, and with good reason. These “super predators” from the Phorusrhacidae were a ...

The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...