Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction scientists created a path toward restoration.

Presumed extinct for more than 50 years, the wonderful takahē is still very much alive. As this Instagram post shows, it is a ...

The quest for dodo’s de-extinction has gathered steam again. Colossal Biosciences has announced a significant breakthrough in its attempts to bring the flightless bird back to life, 300 years after it ...

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 ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction events set to occur in the next 100 years across 500 bird species. The slew ...

Mark Walter, the new owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, is backing one of the most ambitious science projects of the decade: bringing back an extinct bird from the dead. It's called the moa, a giant, ...