WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, is a case study in extinction caused by humans. The Dodo, finely adapted to its ...

Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists completed an analysis identifying traits that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500 ...

PATERZELL, Germany (AP) — How do you teach a bird how, and where, to fly? The distinctive Northern Bald Ibis, hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century, was revived by breeding and ...

For centuries, the dodo has stood as a symbol of the delicacy of nature and how easily diversity can be lost, but what if the dodo was still with us?

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The IUCN Red List, which assesses the extinction risk of ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation organizations submitted comments today blasting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s draft amendment for 77 land-use plans across the western United States intended to protect ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PATERZELL, Germany (AP) — How do you teach a ...