One of the most fascinating creatures in the world of bird predators was the Haast's eagle. This enormous bird of prey has long been extinct for some 500 years and was undoubtedly the largest ...

Once reviled, the Greater Adjutant stork was nearly extinct, but the conservation efforts of Dr. Purnima Devi Barman and her ...

They almost went extinct in the 1800s after decades ... along with these other biggest birds in the world. The Dalmatian pelican is one of the largest flying birds in the world, and they're ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s ... Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in ...

The biggest males weighed 1,500 pounds, about the same as an Alaskan moose, and they sported the largest antlers the world has ever ... mate with the winners.” Extinct Irish Elk, Megaloceros ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

These flightless birds, related to modern-day kiwis, were some of the largest birds ever to exist ... Every five-year-old’s favourite dinosaur, and our pick for the world's scariest extinct creature, ...

Rio Tinto has redrawn its plans for Australia’s next big copper-gold mine after the shock discovery of one of the world’s rarest birds within its project perimeter.