A secretive creature observed by Darwin has long since been thought extinct, until observers recently spotted a specimen.

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more ...

Silent Skies” — an exhibition of paintings and drawings of critically endangered and extinct birds — is on display at the ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

The ongoing efforts to restore wetlands are paying dividends with previously extinct birds such as bitterns and spoonbills ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The exhibit — available for free viewing in the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library through March 28 — was designed to highlight bird species that have gone extinct or are critically endangered since the ...

Despite being flightless, the ostriches of Africa have distant relations in Australia, New Zealand, and South America. All part of a group called the ratites, these birds share some common ...